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Wildfires in Malerkotla

Malerkotla, India, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 7,352 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 15% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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 Very low 28° · 58 % · 47 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 30° · 35 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 29° · 32 % · 16 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 29° · 32 % · 27 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 29° · 32 % · 25 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 30° · 34 % · 18 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 30° · 28 % · 26 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 30° · 36 % · 24 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

7,352
hectares burned
15 %
of its area
2
fires
494
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Malerkotla

  1. 4,265 ha Malerkotla fire, November 2021 where it started 8.6% of the municipality · 8,182 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 3,087 ha Dhuri fire, October 2016 6.2% of the municipality · 9,590 ha in total · 17 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).