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Wildfires in Jirang

Jirang, India, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 28,079 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 44% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).

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 Low 30° · 53 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 31° · 52 % · 25 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Low 32° · 45 % · 26 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Low 33° · 47 % · 19 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Moderate 32° · 49 % · 18 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Low 31° · 59 % · 26 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Low 32° · 58 % · 20 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 72 % · 38 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

28,079
hectares burned
44 %
of its area
4
fires
638
km²

How many times has Jirang burned?

Jirang has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2017, 2021 and 2023. The most recent: Jirang fire, April 2023, with 6,487 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 28,079 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 18,821 hectares, 29 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
4
years with fire
28,079
cumulative ha
18,821
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 Jirang

  1. 6,487 ha Jirang fire, April 2023 where it started 10% of the municipality · 7,681 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 9,345 ha Jirang fire, March 2021 where it started 15% of the municipality · 11,446 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 6,160 ha Jirang fire, April 2017 where it started 9.6% of the municipality · 6,436 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 6,087 ha Jirang fire, April 2016 where it started 9.5% of the municipality · 6,883 ha in total · 7 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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