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Wildfires in Jitpur Simara

Jitpur Simara, Nepal, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 5,611 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 18% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).

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 28° · 45 % · 18 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Moderate 30° · 37 % · 21 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Moderate 30° · 38 % · 17 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Moderate 31° · 34 % · 15 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 41 % · 22 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 21° · 93 % · 55 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 27° · 71 % · 58 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 27° · 76 % · 26 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

5,611
hectares burned
18 %
of its area
8
fires
312
km²

How many times has Jitpur Simara burned?

Jitpur Simara has burned 8 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Chitwan National Park fire, 10 April 2026, with 19 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 5,611 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,395 hectares, 17 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
8
fires
7
years with fire
5,611
cumulative ha
5,395
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 Jitpur Simara

  1. 19 ha Chitwan National Park fire, 10 April 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 2,451 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 9 ha SakhuwaPrasauni fire, March 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 4,491 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 229 ha Chitwan National Park fire, March 2023 0.7% of the municipality · 2,609 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 4,190 ha Nijgadh fire, March 2021 13% of the municipality · 4,768 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 13 ha Chitwan National Park fire, March 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 17,342 ha in total · 21 days
  6. 587 ha Chitwan National Park fire, April 2020 1.9% of the municipality · 2,232 ha in total · 10 days
  7. 389 ha Chitwan National Park fire, March 2019 1.2% of the municipality · 10,115 ha in total · 17 days
  8. 177 ha Kolhabi fire, April 2016 0.6% of the municipality · 3,082 ha in total · 13 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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