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Wildfires in Yerravaripalem

Yerravaripalem, India, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 1,582 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.9% 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. Thu 29 Low 33° · 38 % · 34 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Low 32° · 44 % · 28 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Low 32° · 45 % · 24 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 57 % · 21 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 56 % · 29 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 31° · 52 % · 24 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 31° · 59 % · 28 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 30° · 61 % · 30 km/h
  9. Fri 6 Very low 31° · 55 % · 27 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

1,582
hectares burned
4.9 %
of its area
3
fires
324
km²

How many times has Yerravaripalem burned?

Yerravaripalem has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2019 and 2022. The most recent: Kodur fire, March 2022, with 215 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,582 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,398 hectares, 4.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
1,582
cumulative ha
1,398
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 Yerravaripalem

  1. 215 ha Kodur fire, March 2022 0.7% of the municipality · 6,910 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 92 ha Obulavaripalle fire, March 2019 0.3% of the municipality · 10,735 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 1,276 ha Kodur fire, April 2017 3.9% of the municipality · 7,324 ha in total · 10 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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