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Wildfires in Longtharai Valley

Longtharai Valley, India, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 62,884 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 68% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).

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 5 Low 30° · 61 % · 17 km/h
  2. Fri 6 Low 30° · 60 % · 16 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Low 30° · 57 % · 16 km/h
  4. Sun 8 Low 31° · 59 % · 19 km/h
  5. Mon 9 Moderate 31° · 58 % · 39 km/h
  6. Tue 10 Low 29° · 60 % · 39 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Very low 28° · 64 % · 40 km/h
  8. Thu 12 Very low 28° · 65 % · 34 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 Longtharai Valley: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

62,884
hectares burned
68 %
of its area
10
fires
923
km²

How many times has Longtharai Valley burned?

Longtharai Valley has burned 10 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Longtharai Valley fire, April 2026, with 1,979 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 62,884 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 40,675 hectares, 44 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 3× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
10
fires
6
years with fire
62,884
cumulative ha
40,675
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 Longtharai Valley

  1. 1,979 ha Longtharai Valley fire, April 2026 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 6,636 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 8,050 ha Ambassa fire, April 2026 8.7% of the municipality · 15,580 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 13,234 ha Longtharai Valley fire, April 2023 where it started 14% of the municipality · 21,340 ha in total · 14 days
  4. 1,669 ha Kanchanpur fire, April 2023 1.8% of the municipality · 6,175 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 1,333 ha Ambassa fire, April 2023 1.4% of the municipality · 8,538 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 11,464 ha Longtharai Valley fire, March 2021 where it started 12% of the municipality · 15,481 ha in total · 10 days
  7. 10,482 ha Longtharai Valley fire, 25 March 2020 where it started 11% of the municipality · 10,443 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 6,908 ha Longtharai Valley fire, 23 March 2020 where it started 7.5% of the municipality · 14,583 ha in total · 11 days
  9. 2,707 ha Kanchanpur fire, March 2019 2.9% of the municipality · 5,654 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 5,058 ha Longtharai Valley fire, April 2016 where it started 5.5% of the municipality · 5,038 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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