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Wildfires in Raikia

Raikia, India, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 6,893 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 14% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).

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. Sun 25 Low 28° · 49 % · 24 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Moderate 27° · 36 % · 34 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 22° · 69 % · 47 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 21° · 97 % · 74 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 22° · 96 % · 69 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 68 % · 42 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 26° · 77 % · 22 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 26° · 68 % · 28 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

6,893
hectares burned
14 %
of its area
2
fires
499
km²

How many times has Raikia burned?

Raikia has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2021. The most recent: Raikia fire, March 2021, with 5,150 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
1
years with fire
6,893
cumulative ha
3 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 Raikia

  1. 5,150 ha Raikia fire, March 2021 where it started 10% of the municipality · 10,138 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 1,743 ha Daringbadi fire, March 2021 3.5% of the municipality · 7,284 ha in total · 6 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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