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Wildfires in Dhuri

Dhuri, India, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 19,485 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 33% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

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 30° · 30 % · 31 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 29° · 36 % · 20 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Moderate 29° · 35 % · 28 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Moderate 29° · 35 % · 23 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Moderate 30° · 38 % · 19 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Moderate 30° · 35 % · 21 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 60 % · 22 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Low 29° · 53 % · 29 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

19,485
hectares burned
33 %
of its area
7
fires
595
km²

How many times has Dhuri burned?

Dhuri has burned 7 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2017, 2020 and 2021. The most recent: Malerkotla fire, November 2021, with 2,846 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 19,485 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 18,317 hectares, 31 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
7
fires
4
years with fire
19,485
cumulative ha
18,317
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 Dhuri

  1. 2,846 ha Malerkotla fire, November 2021 4.8% of the municipality · 8,182 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 1,306 ha Barnala fire, October 2021 2.2% of the municipality · 10,119 ha in total · 18 days
  3. 1,996 ha Barnala fire, October 2020 3.4% of the municipality · 20,548 ha in total · 21 days
  4. 574 ha Bhawanigarh fire, October 2017 1.0% of the municipality · 5,208 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 420 ha Barnala fire, 28 October 2016 0.7% of the municipality · 39,116 ha in total · 19 days
  6. 5,805 ha Barnala fire, 25 October 2016 9.8% of the municipality · 108,463 ha in total · 22 days
  7. 6,537 ha Dhuri fire, October 2016 where it started 11% of the municipality · 9,590 ha in total · 17 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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