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Wildfires in West Phaileng

West Phaileng, India, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 37,900 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 36% 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. Fri 23 Very low 30° · 61 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 30° · 56 % · 19 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 30° · 54 % · 19 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 32° · 56 % · 20 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 64 % · 25 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 75 % · 24 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 68 % · 27 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 64 % · 23 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

37,900
hectares burned
36 %
of its area
10
fires
1,049
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered West Phaileng

  1. 1,139 ha West Phaileng fire, April 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 18,904 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 54 ha Longtharai Valley fire, April 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 21,363 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 10,216 ha West Phaileng fire, April 2023 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 10,216 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 5,461 ha West Phaileng fire, March 2023 where it started 5.2% of the municipality · 5,448 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 5,407 ha West Phaileng fire, March 2022 where it started 5.2% of the municipality · 5,742 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 1,935 ha Zawlnuam fire, March 2021 1.8% of the municipality · 8,761 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 2,183 ha Zawlnuam fire, March 2020 2.1% of the municipality · 5,762 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 3,636 ha Zawlnuam fire, March 2019 3.5% of the municipality · 9,469 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 199 ha West Phaileng fire, March 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,011 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 7,671 ha West Phaileng fire, March 2016 where it started 7.3% of the municipality · 7,670 ha in total · 4 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).