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Wildfires in Gaunaha

Gaunaha, India, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 36,668 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 71% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 13).

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 27 Moderate 31° · 33 % · 13 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Moderate 31° · 39 % · 13 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 63 % · 19 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 24° · 90 % · 35 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 26° · 74 % · 29 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 61 % · 23 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 29° · 63 % · 17 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 62 % · 21 km/h
  9. Wed 4 Very low 28° · 73 % · 16 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

36,668
hectares burned
71 %
of its area
5
fires
513
km²

How many times has Gaunaha burned?

Gaunaha has burned 5 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2021 and 2023. The most recent: Gaunaha fire, April 2023, with 9,696 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 36,668 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 4,277 hectares, 8.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 3× 21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
5
fires
2
years with fire
36,668
cumulative ha
4,277
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 Gaunaha

  1. 9,696 ha Gaunaha fire, April 2023 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 9,696 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 4,277 ha Ramnagar fire, April 2023 8.3% of the municipality · 11,870 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 142 ha Ramnagar fire, March 2021 0.3% of the municipality · 7,606 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 11,351 ha Gaunaha fire, 23 March 2021 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 11,351 ha in total · 22 days
  5. 11,202 ha Gaunaha fire, 20 March 2021 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 11,202 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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