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Wildfires in Chaukune

Chaukune, Nepal, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 11,495 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 30% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).

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 24 Low 27° · 46 % · 20 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 28° · 48 % · 21 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Low 28° · 39 % · 15 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Moderate 30° · 32 % · 13 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Moderate 29° · 32 % · 14 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Moderate 28° · 39 % · 23 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 25° · 64 % · 20 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 57 % · 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

11,495
hectares burned
30 %
of its area
10
fires
381
km²

How many times has Chaukune burned?

Chaukune has burned 10 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2023. The most recent: Chaukune fire, May 2023, with 809 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 11,495 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 10,046 hectares, 26 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
10
fires
6
years with fire
11,495
cumulative ha
10,046
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 Chaukune

  1. 809 ha Chaukune fire, May 2023 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 2,067 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 2,448 ha Mohanyal fire, 8 April 2021 6.4% of the municipality · 2,828 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 109 ha Chaukune fire, March 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,350 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 2,444 ha Chaukune fire, May 2019 where it started 6.4% of the municipality · 2,455 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 18 ha Bogtan fire, April 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 2,073 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 6 ha Panchpuri fire, April 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 3,554 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 1 ha Mohanyal fire, 10 April 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 2,595 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 493 ha Panchpuri fire, 9 April 2016 1.3% of the municipality · 2,264 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 2,979 ha Chaukune fire, 8 April 2016 where it started 7.8% of the municipality · 2,979 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 2,186 ha Chaukune fire, 8 April 2016 where it started 5.7% of the municipality · 2,207 ha in total · 12 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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