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Wildfires in Barahtal

Barahtal, Nepal, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 3,778 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.3% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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 25° · 46 % · 21 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Low 25° · 41 % · 17 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Low 26° · 38 % · 18 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Low 28° · 31 % · 18 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Moderate 27° · 36 % · 17 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 21° · 77 % · 21 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 24° · 57 % · 23 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 25° · 64 % · 21 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

3,778
hectares burned
8.3 %
of its area
8
fires
456
km²

How many times has Barahtal burned?

Barahtal has burned 8 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2018 and 2019. The most recent: Bardiya National Park fire, May 2019, with 226 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 3,778 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,357 hectares, 7.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 4× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
8
fires
3
years with fire
3,778
cumulative ha
3,357
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 Barahtal

  1. 226 ha Bardiya National Park fire, May 2019 0.5% of the municipality · 9,172 ha in total · 18 days
  2. 234 ha Barahtal fire, May 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,296 ha in total · 18 days
  3. 1,018 ha Birendranagar fire, April 2019 2.2% of the municipality · 2,593 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 1,090 ha Barahtal fire, April 2019 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 3,146 ha in total · 17 days
  5. 309 ha Bardiya National Park fire, April 2018 0.7% of the municipality · 3,767 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 410 ha Panchpuri fire, 11 April 2016 0.9% of the municipality · 2,167 ha in total · 15 days
  7. 332 ha Bardiya National Park fire, April 2016 0.7% of the municipality · 13,559 ha in total · 26 days
  8. 159 ha Birendranagar fire, April 2016 0.4% of the municipality · 2,490 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/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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