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Wildfires in Manikpur

Manikpur, India, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 13,575 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 12% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 18).

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. Sat 24 Moderate 30° · 35 % · 29 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 31° · 39 % · 26 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Moderate 30° · 40 % · 28 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Moderate 29° · 36 % · 27 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Moderate 29° · 48 % · 27 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 76 % · 53 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 85 % · 38 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 27° · 73 % · 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

13,575
hectares burned
12 %
of its area
4
fires
1,170
km²

How many times has Manikpur burned?

Manikpur has burned 4 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2019 and 2021. The most recent: Manikpur fire, 31 March 2021, with 5,435 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 13,575 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 9,629 hectares, 8.2 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 3× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
2
years with fire
13,575
cumulative ha
9,629
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 Manikpur

  1. 5,435 ha Manikpur fire, 31 March 2021 where it started 4.6% of the municipality · 6,807 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 3,597 ha Manikpur fire, 30 March 2021 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 8,731 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 56 ha Jawa fire, March 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 6,740 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 4,488 ha Manikpur fire, April 2019 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 6,134 ha in total · 16 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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