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Wildfires in Tapa

Tapa, India, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 31,832 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 52% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 15).

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 Low 30° · 59 % · 41 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 31° · 32 % · 30 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 29° · 32 % · 22 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 29° · 33 % · 25 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 30° · 30 % · 22 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 30° · 29 % · 22 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 30° · 29 % · 17 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 29° · 47 % · 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

31,832
hectares burned
52 %
of its area
9
fires
609
km²

How many times has Tapa burned?

Tapa has burned 9 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2020 and 2021. The most recent: Nihal Singhwala fire, 3 November 2021, with 1,321 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 31,832 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 25,481 hectares, 42 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
9
fires
3
years with fire
31,832
cumulative ha
25,481
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 Tapa

  1. 1,321 ha Nihal Singhwala fire, 3 November 2021 2.2% of the municipality · 6,426 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 912 ha Raikot fire, October 2021 1.5% of the municipality · 10,991 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 2,941 ha Sangrur fire, October 2021 4.8% of the municipality · 31,645 ha in total · 23 days
  4. 522 ha Mansa fire, 31 October 2020 0.9% of the municipality · 7,240 ha in total · 15 days
  5. 1,376 ha Nihal Singhwala fire, October 2020 2.3% of the municipality · 7,051 ha in total · 14 days
  6. 5,432 ha Barnala fire, October 2020 8.9% of the municipality · 20,548 ha in total · 21 days
  7. 39 ha Mansa fire, 31 October 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 12,543 ha in total · 17 days
  8. 9,526 ha Barnala fire, 28 October 2016 16% of the municipality · 39,116 ha in total · 19 days
  9. 9,763 ha Barnala fire, 25 October 2016 16% 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).

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