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Wildfires in Lawngtlai

Lawngtlai, India, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 21,983 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 23% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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. Thu 12 Very low 29° · 48 % · 19 km/h
  2. Fri 13 Low 29° · 52 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sat 14 Moderate 29° · 48 % · 20 km/h
  4. Sun 15 Moderate 29° · 37 % · 18 km/h
  5. Mon 16 Moderate 28° · 43 % · 20 km/h
  6. Tue 17 Moderate 30° · 46 % · 23 km/h
  7. Wed 18 Low 25° · 68 % · 17 km/h
  8. Thu 19 Very low 26° · 76 % · 25 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Lawngtlai: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

21,983
hectares burned
23 %
of its area
10
fires
939
km²

How many times has Lawngtlai burned?

Lawngtlai has burned 10 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2019, 2020, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Chawngte fire, 10 March 2026, with 1,835 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 21,983 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 18,246 hectares, 19 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 3× 26
10
fires
6
years with fire
21,983
cumulative ha
18,246
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 Lawngtlai

  1. 1,835 ha Chawngte fire, 10 March 2026 2.0% of the municipality · 8,132 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 802 ha S' Bungtlang fire, March 2026 0.8% of the municipality · 6,681 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 3,347 ha Lawngtlai fire, March 2026 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 5,682 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 2,396 ha Lawngtlai fire, March 2025 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 5,226 ha in total · 15 days
  5. 4,410 ha S' Bungtlang fire, March 2025 4.7% of the municipality · 12,406 ha in total · 20 days
  6. 575 ha Lungsen fire, 11 March 2024 0.6% of the municipality · 7,638 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 1,640 ha Chawngte fire, March 2022 1.8% of the municipality · 6,548 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 6,390 ha Lawngtlai fire, March 2022 where it started 6.8% of the municipality · 8,986 ha in total · 9 days
  9. 50 ha Chawngte fire, 26 March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 5,411 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 538 ha Chawngte fire, 22 March 2019 0.6% of the municipality · 10,625 ha in total · 10 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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