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Wildfires in Yamkeshwar

Yamkeshwar, India, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 4,653 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.5% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).

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 Moderate 28° · 34 % · 33 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Low 27° · 45 % · 17 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Low 27° · 45 % · 16 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Low 28° · 41 % · 19 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 76 % · 23 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 48 % · 19 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 26° · 62 % · 21 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 27° · 60 % · 19 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

4,653
hectares burned
8.5 %
of its area
3
fires
545
km²

How many times has Yamkeshwar burned?

Yamkeshwar has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2018. The most recent: Kotdwara fire, May 2018, with 186 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,653 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 4,472 hectares, 8.2 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
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  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
4,653
cumulative ha
4,472
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 Yamkeshwar

  1. 186 ha Kotdwara fire, May 2018 0.3% of the municipality · 6,196 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 4,025 ha Yamkeshwar fire, April 2016 where it started 7.4% of the municipality · 5,751 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 442 ha Kotdwara fire, 14 April 2016 0.8% of the municipality · 9,887 ha in total · 18 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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