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Wildfires in Palasbari

Palasbari, India, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 3,115 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.6% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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 Low 30° · 53 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 31° · 53 % · 25 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Low 32° · 48 % · 28 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Low 33° · 50 % · 20 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Low 33° · 55 % · 19 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 63 % · 26 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 63 % · 20 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 72 % · 38 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

3,115
hectares burned
4.6 %
of its area
4
fires
679
km²

How many times has Palasbari burned?

Palasbari has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2017, 2021 and 2023. The most recent: Jirang fire, April 2023, with 886 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 3,115 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 2,603 hectares, 3.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
4
years with fire
3,115
cumulative ha
2,603
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 Palasbari

  1. 886 ha Jirang fire, April 2023 1.3% of the municipality · 7,681 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 2,029 ha Jirang fire, March 2021 3.0% of the municipality · 11,446 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 199 ha Jirang fire, April 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 6,436 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 0 ha Jirang fire, April 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 6,883 ha in total · 7 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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