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Wildfires in Babai

Babai, Nepal, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 17,596 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 87% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

Only fires of 2,000 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 24° · 62 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 24° · 65 % · 24 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 24° · 64 % · 23 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 25° · 60 % · 19 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 26° · 51 % · 19 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 27° · 50 % · 18 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 26° · 42 % · 19 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 19° · 88 % · 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

17,596
hectares burned
87 %
of its area
12
fires
202
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Babai

  1. 725 ha Rapti Sonari fire, April 2026 3.6% of the municipality · 17,411 ha in total · 19 days
  2. 666 ha Rapti Sonari fire, 16 April 2023 3.3% of the municipality · 3,833 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 55 ha Rapti Sonari fire, 15 April 2023 0.3% of the municipality · 2,555 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 199 ha Rapti Sonari fire, April 2022 1.0% of the municipality · 26,185 ha in total · 17 days
  5. 1,133 ha Babai fire, March 2021 where it started 5.6% of the municipality · 19,256 ha in total · 26 days
  6. 1,915 ha Dangisharan fire, March 2021 9.5% of the municipality · 2,378 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 346 ha Rapti Sonari fire, May 2019 1.7% of the municipality · 2,234 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 2,139 ha Babai fire, April 2019 where it started 11% of the municipality · 2,226 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 749 ha Rapti Sonari fire, 19 April 2019 3.7% of the municipality · 3,535 ha in total · 11 days
  10. 253 ha Rapti Sonari fire, 17 April 2019 1.3% of the municipality · 26,744 ha in total · 20 days
  11. 3,123 ha Rapti Sonari fire, April 2017 15% of the municipality · 36,223 ha in total · 15 days
  12. 6,294 ha Rapti Sonari fire, March 2016 31% of the municipality · 43,780 ha in total · 26 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Open Data Nepal, Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).