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Wildfires in Bangad Kupinde

Bangad Kupinde, Nepal, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 23,746 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 70% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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. Thu 12 Low 21° · 52 % · 28 km/h
  2. Fri 13 Low 20° · 60 % · 29 km/h
  3. Sat 14 Low 21° · 61 % · 28 km/h
  4. Sun 15 Low 21° · 57 % · 22 km/h
  5. Mon 16 Low 21° · 46 % · 23 km/h
  6. Tue 17 Low 21° · 49 % · 26 km/h
  7. Wed 18 Low 21° · 56 % · 29 km/h
  8. Thu 19 Low 22° · 56 % · 20 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Bangad Kupinde: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

23,746
hectares burned
70 %
of its area
9
fires
340
km²

How many times has Bangad Kupinde burned?

Bangad Kupinde has burned 9 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Bangad Kupinde fire, April 2026, with 6,782 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 23,746 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 15,377 hectares, 45 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6. 3× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
9
fires
5
years with fire
23,746
cumulative ha
15,377
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 Bangad Kupinde

  1. 6,782 ha Bangad Kupinde fire, April 2026 where it started 20% of the municipality · 6,785 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 2,143 ha Bangad Kupinde fire, 5 April 2021 where it started 6.3% of the municipality · 2,134 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 2,057 ha Bangad Kupinde fire, 1 April 2021 where it started 6.1% of the municipality · 2,087 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 5,795 ha Bangad Kupinde fire, March 2021 where it started 17% of the municipality · 7,873 ha in total · 21 days
  5. 2,465 ha Bangad Kupinde fire, May 2019 where it started 7.3% of the municipality · 3,050 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 464 ha Kumakhmalika fire, May 2019 1.4% of the municipality · 3,490 ha in total · 17 days
  7. 2,959 ha Bangad Kupinde fire, May 2018 where it started 8.7% of the municipality · 2,986 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 1,077 ha Dhorchaur fire, April 2016 3.2% of the municipality · 2,459 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 4 ha Shiwalaya fire, April 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 6,550 ha in total · 13 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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