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Wildfires in Kotdwara

Kotdwara, India, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 35,608 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 33% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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 Low 24° · 42 % · 21 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Low 25° · 36 % · 20 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 23° · 58 % · 28 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 22° · 59 % · 24 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 24° · 57 % · 23 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 24° · 64 % · 23 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 24° · 58 % · 22 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 24° · 52 % · 22 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

35,608
hectares burned
33 %
of its area
5
fires
1,077
km²

How many times has Kotdwara burned?

Kotdwara has burned 5 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2018. The most recent: Kotdwara fire, May 2018, with 5,935 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 35,608 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 31,541 hectares, 29 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
5
fires
2
years with fire
35,608
cumulative ha
31,541
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 Kotdwara

  1. 5,935 ha Kotdwara fire, May 2018 where it started 5.5% of the municipality · 6,196 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 13,192 ha Kotdwara fire, 18 April 2016 where it started 12% of the municipality · 13,159 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 1,746 ha Yamkeshwar fire, April 2016 1.6% of the municipality · 5,751 ha in total · 14 days
  4. 5,246 ha Kotdwara fire, 15 April 2016 where it started 4.9% of the municipality · 5,226 ha in total · 18 days
  5. 9,489 ha Kotdwara fire, 14 April 2016 where it started 8.8% of the municipality · 9,887 ha in total · 18 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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