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Wildfires in Latehar

Latehar, India, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2017: 791 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.6% 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. Fri 23 Moderate 28° · 48 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 27° · 41 % · 19 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 28° · 41 % · 22 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 28° · 47 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 30° · 43 % · 17 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 30° · 60 % · 39 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 85 % · 57 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 76 % · 66 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

791
hectares burned
1.6 %
of its area
1
fires
495
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Latehar

  1. 791 ha Peshrar fire, March 2017 1.6% of the municipality · 12,816 ha in total · 9 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).