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Wildfires in Baijanath

Baijanath, Nepal, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 4,772 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 34% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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. Sun 25 Low 28° · 52 % · 27 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Low 27° · 53 % · 19 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Low 28° · 43 % · 16 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Low 28° · 49 % · 17 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Low 27° · 51 % · 17 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 24° · 84 % · 22 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 24° · 85 % · 19 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 26° · 72 % · 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

4,772
hectares burned
34 %
of its area
5
fires
142
km²

How many times has Baijanath burned?

Baijanath has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2019, 2021 and 2022. The most recent: Baijanath fire, April 2022, with 1,369 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,772 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 2,813 hectares, 20 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
5
fires
4
years with fire
4,772
cumulative ha
2,813
distinct ha

Fires larger than 2,000 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 Nepal →

Fires that entered Baijanath

  1. 1,369 ha Baijanath fire, April 2022 where it started 9.6% of the municipality · 2,968 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 198 ha Kohalpur fire, April 2022 1.4% of the municipality · 3,145 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 1,928 ha Bardiya National Park fire, March 2021 14% of the municipality · 17,821 ha in total · 23 days
  4. 188 ha Rapti Sonari fire, 16 April 2019 1.3% of the municipality · 26,744 ha in total · 28 days
  5. 1,089 ha Rapti Sonari fire, April 2016 7.7% of the municipality · 6,431 ha in total · 23 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).

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