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Wildfires in Khuntpani

Khuntpani, India, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 5,526 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 14% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 11).

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 29° · 51 % · 20 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 28° · 45 % · 19 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Moderate 28° · 49 % · 28 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Low 30° · 57 % · 31 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 26° · 84 % · 23 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 25° · 92 % · 50 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 66 % · 46 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 69 % · 24 km/h
  9. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 75 % · 15 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

5,526
hectares burned
14 %
of its area
2
fires
397
km²

How many times has Khuntpani burned?

Khuntpani has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2021. The most recent: Tonto fire, March 2021, with 1,381 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
1
years with fire
5,526
cumulative ha
3 Mar 2021
most recent

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 Khuntpani

  1. 1,381 ha Tonto fire, March 2021 3.5% of the municipality · 6,209 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 4,144 ha Khuntpani fire, February 2021 where it started 10% of the municipality · 5,581 ha in total · 8 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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