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Wildfires in Dhimarkheda

Dhimarkheda, India, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 10,239 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 12% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 22).

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 25 High 31° · 29 % · 28 km/h
  2. Mon 26 High 30° · 34 % · 30 km/h
  3. Tue 27 High 29° · 38 % · 37 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Moderate 27° · 59 % · 34 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 78 % · 45 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 24° · 76 % · 37 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 27° · 56 % · 21 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 28° · 58 % · 24 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

10,239
hectares burned
12 %
of its area
2
fires
851
km²

How many times has Dhimarkheda burned?

Dhimarkheda has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2018 and 2021. The most recent: Dhimarkheda fire, March 2021, with 5,995 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 10,239 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 7,228 hectares, 8.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
10,239
cumulative ha
7,228
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 Dhimarkheda

  1. 5,995 ha Dhimarkheda fire, March 2021 where it started 7.0% of the municipality · 8,625 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 4,243 ha Dhimarkheda fire, March 2018 where it started 5.0% of the municipality · 6,407 ha in total · 9 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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