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Wildfires in Gangaram

Gangaram, India, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 6,493 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 15% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Tue 3 Very low 24° · 94 % · 33 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very low 26° · 80 % · 44 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very low 28° · 68 % · 23 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 29° · 68 % · 16 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 29° · 62 % · 22 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 29° · 45 % · 28 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Low 29° · 37 % · 26 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Low 29° · 36 % · 23 km/h
  9. Wed 11 Low 29° · 43 % · 21 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

6,493
hectares burned
15 %
of its area
3
fires
423
km²

How many times has Gangaram burned?

Gangaram has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2021 and 2022. The most recent: Gundala fire, March 2022, with 2,415 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 6,493 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,934 hectares, 9.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
6,493
cumulative ha
3,934
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 Gangaram

  1. 2,415 ha Gundala fire, March 2022 5.7% of the municipality · 6,856 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 3,020 ha Gundala fire, February 2021 7.1% of the municipality · 10,369 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 1,058 ha Gundala fire, February 2016 2.5% of the municipality · 9,015 ha in total · 16 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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