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Wildfires in Nihal Singhwala

Nihal Singhwala, India, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 30,457 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 68% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 17).

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 29 High 29° · 33 % · 22 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Moderate 27° · 53 % · 17 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Moderate 29° · 41 % · 22 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Moderate 29° · 36 % · 19 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Moderate 29° · 34 % · 16 km/h
  6. Tue 3 High 30° · 33 % · 21 km/h
  7. Wed 4 High 30° · 37 % · 24 km/h
  8. Thu 5 High 31° · 31 % · 23 km/h
  9. Fri 6 High 31° · 36 % · 26 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

30,457
hectares burned
68 %
of its area
5
fires
446
km²

How many times has Nihal Singhwala burned?

Nihal Singhwala has burned 5 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2020 and 2021. The most recent: Nihal Singhwala fire, 3 November 2021, with 3,965 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 30,457 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 21,049 hectares, 47 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
5
fires
3
years with fire
30,457
cumulative ha
21,049
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 Nihal Singhwala

  1. 3,965 ha Nihal Singhwala fire, 3 November 2021 where it started 8.9% of the municipality · 7,867 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 3,840 ha Nihal Singhwala fire, 3 November 2021 where it started 8.6% of the municipality · 6,426 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 2,937 ha Moga fire, November 2021 6.6% of the municipality · 7,143 ha in total · 14 days
  4. 3,948 ha Nihal Singhwala fire, October 2020 where it started 8.8% of the municipality · 7,051 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 15,768 ha Barnala fire, 18 October 2016 35% of the municipality · 108,463 ha in total · 36 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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