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Wildfires in Barwadih

Barwadih, India, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 8,353 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 12% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 13).

Only fires of 5,000 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. Sat 24 Moderate 28° · 40 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 28° · 36 % · 24 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Moderate 28° · 46 % · 23 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Moderate 30° · 47 % · 26 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 68 % · 26 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 93 % · 55 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 66 % · 58 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 67 % · 32 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

8,353
hectares burned
12 %
of its area
2
fires
681
km²

How many times has Barwadih burned?

Barwadih has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2021 and 2022. The most recent: Barwadih fire, March 2022, with 8,282 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
8,353
cumulative ha
24 Mar 2022
most recent

Fires larger than 5,000 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 India →

Fires that entered Barwadih

  1. 8,282 ha Barwadih fire, March 2022 where it started 12% of the municipality · 8,248 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 71 ha Garu fire, March 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 7,022 ha in total · 12 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Pathways Data Pvt. Ltd., lgdirectory.gov.in (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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