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Wildfires in Shangcai County 上蔡县

Shangcai County, China, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2023: 3,150 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.1% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 3 Very low 19° · 55 % · 20 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very low 16° · 74 % · 26 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very low 22° · 42 % · 23 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 22° · 42 % · 25 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 20° · 61 % · 35 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 15° · 74 % · 36 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 14° · 52 % · 27 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 16° · 43 % · 23 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

3,150
hectares burned
2.1 %
of its area
2
fires
1,508
km²

How many times has Shangcai County burned?

Shangcai County has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2023. The most recent: Shangcai County fire, 9 June 2023, with 1,976 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
1
years with fire
3,150
cumulative ha
9 Jun 2023
most recent

Fires larger than 1,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in China →

Fires that entered Shangcai County

  1. 1,976 ha Shangcai County fire, 9 June 2023 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,969 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,174 ha Shangcai County fire, 9 June 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,170 ha in total · 2 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Lee Beryman, OpenStreetMap (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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