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Wildfires in Xiangyun County 祥云县

Xiangyun County, China, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 5,047 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. Wed 11 Very low 12° · 69 % · 23 km/h
  2. Thu 12 Very low 14° · 64 % · 37 km/h
  3. Fri 13 Very low 18° · 39 % · 38 km/h
  4. Sat 14 Very low 19° · 43 % · 41 km/h
  5. Sun 15 Low 18° · 41 % · 55 km/h
  6. Mon 16 Moderate 18° · 41 % · 56 km/h
  7. Tue 17 Low 19° · 44 % · 47 km/h
  8. Wed 18 Low 20° · 42 % · 42 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Xiangyun County: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

5,047
hectares burned
2.1 %
of its area
3
fires
2,425
km²

How many times has Xiangyun County burned?

Xiangyun County has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2019, 2020 and 2021. The most recent: Xiangyun County fire, April 2021, with 582 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
5,047
cumulative ha
25 Apr 2021
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 Xiangyun County

  1. 582 ha Xiangyun County fire, April 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,199 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 2,683 ha Xiangyun County fire, April 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,674 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 1,781 ha Xiangyun County fire, May 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,570 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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