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Wildfires in Bheriganga

Bheriganga, Nepal, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 6,455 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 25% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Sat 31 Very low 22° · 73 % · 20 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 24° · 70 % · 20 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 24° · 55 % · 19 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 25° · 60 % · 22 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 24° · 63 % · 20 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 23° · 66 % · 19 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 23° · 68 % · 21 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 23° · 69 % · 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

6,455
hectares burned
25 %
of its area
6
fires
257
km²

How many times has Bheriganga burned?

Bheriganga has burned 6 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2019, 2021, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Bheriganga fire, April 2026, with 3,374 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 6,455 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,571 hectares, 22 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
6
fires
5
years with fire
6,455
cumulative ha
5,571
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 Bheriganga

  1. 3,374 ha Bheriganga fire, April 2026 where it started 13% of the municipality · 3,368 ha in total · 17 days
  2. 111 ha Bansagadhi fire, April 2023 0.4% of the municipality · 2,437 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 1 ha Birendranagar fire, March 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 3,151 ha in total · 14 days
  4. 184 ha Barahtal fire, May 2019 0.7% of the municipality · 6,296 ha in total · 18 days
  5. 2,474 ha Bheriganga fire, April 2016 where it started 9.6% of the municipality · 2,568 ha in total · 14 days
  6. 313 ha Birendranagar fire, April 2016 1.2% 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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