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Wildfires in Raikot

Raikot, India, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 17,353 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 38% 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. Fri 23 Very low 29° · 64 % · 29 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 30° · 31 % · 37 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 30° · 31 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 29° · 31 % · 24 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 30° · 29 % · 25 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 31° · 30 % · 21 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 31° · 31 % · 23 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 29° · 46 % · 21 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

17,353
hectares burned
38 %
of its area
2
fires
462
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Raikot

  1. 5,310 ha Raikot fire, October 2021 where it started 12% of the municipality · 10,991 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 12,043 ha Barnala fire, 25 October 2016 26% of the municipality · 108,463 ha in total · 22 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).