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Wildfires in Majhgawan

Majhgawan, India, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 5,631 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.6% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

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. Wed 28 Moderate 28° · 58 % · 27 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Moderate 25° · 68 % · 41 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 22° · 82 % · 33 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 25° · 71 % · 25 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Low 28° · 55 % · 23 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Low 29° · 47 % · 22 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Moderate 29° · 44 % · 22 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Moderate 29° · 40 % · 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

5,631
hectares burned
4.6 %
of its area
3
fires
1,224
km²

How many times has Majhgawan burned?

Majhgawan has burned 3 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2021. The most recent: Manikpur fire, 30 March 2021, with 2,613 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 3× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
1
years with fire
5,631
cumulative ha
30 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 Majhgawan

  1. 2,613 ha Manikpur fire, 30 March 2021 2.1% of the municipality · 8,731 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 2,665 ha Majhgawan fire, March 2021 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 5,792 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 353 ha Panna fire, March 2021 0.3% of the municipality · 5,284 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).

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