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Wildfires in Kanchanpur

Kanchanpur, India, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 23,401 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 31% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 60 % · 25 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 66 % · 18 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 58 % · 16 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 31° · 64 % · 19 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 65 % · 18 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 31° · 62 % · 21 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 66 % · 22 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 31° · 62 % · 20 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

23,401
hectares burned
31 %
of its area
9
fires
752
km²

How many times has Kanchanpur burned?

Kanchanpur has burned 9 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Longtharai Valley fire, April 2026, with 1,672 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 23,401 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 16,512 hectares, 22 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
9
fires
6
years with fire
23,401
cumulative ha
16,512
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 Kanchanpur

  1. 1,672 ha Longtharai Valley fire, April 2026 2.2% of the municipality · 6,636 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 5,941 ha Longtharai Valley fire, April 2023 7.9% of the municipality · 21,363 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 3,521 ha Kanchanpur fire, April 2023 where it started 4.7% of the municipality · 6,175 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 701 ha Zawlnuam fire, March 2022 0.9% of the municipality · 5,558 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 3,230 ha Longtharai Valley fire, March 2021 4.3% of the municipality · 15,481 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 480 ha Zawlnuam fire, March 2021 0.6% of the municipality · 8,761 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 4,536 ha Longtharai Valley fire, 23 March 2020 6.0% of the municipality · 14,583 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 2,974 ha Kanchanpur fire, March 2019 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 5,654 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 347 ha Zawlnuam fire, March 2019 0.5% of the municipality · 9,469 ha in total · 6 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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