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Wildfires in West Bunghmun

West Bunghmun, India, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 49,666 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 41% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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 31 Very low 30° · 56 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 57 % · 21 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 57 % · 23 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 59 % · 27 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 53 % · 27 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Low 29° · 50 % · 22 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Low 29° · 53 % · 21 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Low 30° · 54 % · 22 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

49,666
hectares burned
41 %
of its area
11
fires
1,198
km²

How many times has West Bunghmun burned?

West Bunghmun has burned 11 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: West Bunghmun fire, April 2026, with 6,528 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 49,666 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 24,783 hectares, 21 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 2× 26
11
fires
7
years with fire
49,666
cumulative ha
24,783
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 West Bunghmun

  1. 6,528 ha West Bunghmun fire, April 2026 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 6,528 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 220 ha Lungsen fire, March 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 6,412 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 6,674 ha West Bunghmun fire, March 2025 where it started 5.6% of the municipality · 6,666 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 909 ha Lungsen fire, 11 March 2024 0.8% of the municipality · 6,322 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 4,424 ha West Bunghmun fire, March 2024 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 5,178 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 5,330 ha West Bunghmun fire, March 2023 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 5,651 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 5 ha West Phaileng fire, March 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 5,448 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 18,009 ha West Bunghmun fire, March 2022 where it started 15% of the municipality · 21,867 ha in total · 12 days
  9. 235 ha West Phaileng fire, March 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 5,742 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 7,309 ha West Bunghmun fire, March 2021 where it started 6.1% of the municipality · 7,274 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 24 ha West Phaileng fire, March 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 7,670 ha in total · 8 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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