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Wildfires in Bhawanigarh

Bhawanigarh, India, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 9,182 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 29% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 27).

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. Sun 8 High 29° · 35 % · 17 km/h
  2. Mon 9 High 29° · 37 % · 19 km/h
  3. Tue 10 High 29° · 35 % · 20 km/h
  4. Wed 11 High 29° · 42 % · 26 km/h
  5. Thu 12 High 29° · 36 % · 19 km/h
  6. Fri 13 High 30° · 30 % · 21 km/h
  7. Sat 14 High 30° · 30 % · 25 km/h
  8. Sun 15 High 28° · 38 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Bhawanigarh: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

9,182
hectares burned
29 %
of its area
2
fires
318
km²

How many times has Bhawanigarh burned?

Bhawanigarh has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2021. The most recent: Dirba fire, November 2021, with 4,884 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 9,182 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 8,416 hectares, 26 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
9,182
cumulative ha
8,416
distinct ha

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 Bhawanigarh

  1. 4,884 ha Dirba fire, November 2021 15% of the municipality · 16,791 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 4,299 ha Bhawanigarh fire, October 2017 where it started 14% of the municipality · 5,208 ha in total · 23 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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