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Wildfires in Dangisharan

Dangisharan, Nepal, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 7,531 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 68% 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 26° · 50 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 27° · 51 % · 23 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Low 28° · 50 % · 17 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Low 29° · 34 % · 17 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Moderate 30° · 37 % · 17 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 47 % · 27 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 21° · 94 % · 31 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 26° · 67 % · 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

7,531
hectares burned
68 %
of its area
9
fires
111
km²

How many times has Dangisharan burned?

Dangisharan has burned 9 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023. The most recent: Rapti Sonari fire, 15 April 2023, with 716 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 7,531 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,810 hectares, 34 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
9
fires
6
years with fire
7,531
cumulative ha
3,810
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 Dangisharan

  1. 716 ha Rapti Sonari fire, 15 April 2023 6.4% of the municipality · 2,555 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 290 ha Rapti Sonari fire, April 2022 2.6% of the municipality · 26,185 ha in total · 17 days
  3. 362 ha Babai fire, March 2021 3.3% of the municipality · 19,256 ha in total · 26 days
  4. 472 ha Dangisharan fire, March 2021 where it started 4.2% of the municipality · 2,378 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 532 ha Rapti Sonari fire, May 2019 4.8% of the municipality · 2,234 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 1,137 ha Dangisharan fire, April 2019 where it started 10% of the municipality · 2,799 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 94 ha Babai fire, April 2019 0.8% of the municipality · 2,226 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 957 ha Rapti Sonari fire, April 2017 8.6% of the municipality · 36,223 ha in total · 15 days
  9. 2,972 ha Rapti Sonari fire, March 2016 27% of the municipality · 43,780 ha in total · 26 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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