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Wildfires in Jorayal

Jorayal, Nepal, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 28,255 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 67% 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. Wed 28 Low 24° · 32 % · 21 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Low 23° · 40 % · 25 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Low 22° · 51 % · 30 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 22° · 61 % · 25 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 22° · 64 % · 24 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 22° · 59 % · 28 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Low 22° · 50 % · 27 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Low 23° · 43 % · 27 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

28,255
hectares burned
67 %
of its area
6
fires
420
km²

How many times has Jorayal burned?

Jorayal has burned 6 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2019 and 2021. The most recent: Alital fire, March 2021, with 418 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 28,255 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 21,847 hectares, 52 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
6
fires
3
years with fire
28,255
cumulative ha
21,847
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 Jorayal

  1. 418 ha Alital fire, March 2021 1.0% of the municipality · 2,874 ha in total · 20 days
  2. 2,816 ha Jorayal fire, 20 May 2019 where it started 6.7% of the municipality · 2,806 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 8,313 ha Jorayal fire, 4 May 2019 where it started 20% of the municipality · 8,329 ha in total · 18 days
  4. 14 ha Chure fire, 29 April 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 2,532 ha in total · 21 days
  5. 3,876 ha Badikedar fire, 20 April 2016 9.2% of the municipality · 5,215 ha in total · 14 days
  6. 12,818 ha Jorayal fire, April 2016 where it started 31% of the municipality · 21,988 ha in total · 21 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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