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Wildfires in Birgunj

Birgunj, Nepal, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 217 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.6% 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. Tue 27 Low 31° · 43 % · 11 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Low 30° · 50 % · 13 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 25° · 71 % · 13 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 22° · 85 % · 40 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 25° · 76 % · 33 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 65 % · 23 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 29° · 65 % · 16 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 29° · 68 % · 18 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

217
hectares burned
1.6 %
of its area
3
fires
133
km²

How many times has Birgunj burned?

Birgunj has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2020, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Chitwan National Park fire, 10 April 2026, with 92 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
3
fires
3
years with fire
217
cumulative ha
10 Apr 2026
most recent

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 Birgunj

  1. 92 ha Chitwan National Park fire, 10 April 2026 0.7% of the municipality · 2,451 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 5 ha Chitwan National Park fire, March 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 2,609 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 120 ha Chitwan National Park fire, April 2020 0.9% of the municipality · 2,232 ha in total · 10 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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