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Wildfires in Chakradharpur

Chakradharpur, India, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 1,238 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.4% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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. Fri 6 Low 30° · 46 % · 16 km/h
  2. Sat 7 Low 29° · 43 % · 11 km/h
  3. Sun 8 Low 28° · 49 % · 17 km/h
  4. Mon 9 Low 28° · 47 % · 12 km/h
  5. Tue 10 Low 28° · 47 % · 16 km/h
  6. Wed 11 Low 28° · 46 % · 29 km/h
  7. Thu 12 Low 28° · 44 % · 20 km/h
  8. Fri 13 Low 28° · 50 % · 15 km/h
  9. Sat 14 Low 29° · 51 % · 14 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 Chakradharpur: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

1,238
hectares burned
3.4 %
of its area
2
fires
359
km²

How many times has Chakradharpur burned?

Chakradharpur has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2021. The most recent: Bandgaon fire, March 2021, with 5 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
1
years with fire
1,238
cumulative ha
2 Mar 2021
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 Chakradharpur

  1. 5 ha Bandgaon fire, March 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 7,229 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 1,232 ha Khuntpani fire, February 2021 3.4% of the municipality · 5,581 ha in total · 8 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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