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Wildfires in Kalimati

Kalimati, Nepal, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 14,796 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 29% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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. Mon 26 Low 25° · 52 % · 19 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Low 25° · 44 % · 18 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Low 26° · 42 % · 13 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Low 26° · 43 % · 17 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 22° · 74 % · 19 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 23° · 64 % · 20 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 24° · 74 % · 22 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 25° · 72 % · 22 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

14,796
hectares burned
29 %
of its area
12
fires
502
km²

How many times has Kalimati burned?

Kalimati has burned 12 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023. The most recent: Rapti Sonari fire, 9 May 2023, with 79 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 14,796 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 10,696 hectares, 21 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
12
fires
6
years with fire
14,796
cumulative ha
10,696
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 Kalimati

  1. 79 ha Rapti Sonari fire, 9 May 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 7,091 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 743 ha Kalimati fire, April 2022 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,077 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 2,079 ha Rapti Sonari fire, April 2022 4.1% of the municipality · 26,185 ha in total · 21 days
  4. 335 ha Kohalpur fire, April 2022 0.7% of the municipality · 3,145 ha in total · 15 days
  5. 655 ha Bardiya National Park fire, March 2021 1.3% of the municipality · 17,821 ha in total · 23 days
  6. 589 ha Babai fire, March 2021 1.2% of the municipality · 19,256 ha in total · 31 days
  7. 509 ha Rapti Sonari fire, 16 April 2019 1.0% of the municipality · 26,744 ha in total · 28 days
  8. 3,235 ha Rapti Sonari fire, April 2017 6.4% of the municipality · 36,223 ha in total · 22 days
  9. 102 ha Bheriganga fire, April 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 2,568 ha in total · 14 days
  10. 354 ha Rapti Sonari fire, April 2016 0.7% of the municipality · 6,431 ha in total · 23 days
  11. 2,985 ha Kalimati fire, April 2016 where it started 5.9% of the municipality · 2,976 ha in total · 11 days
  12. 3,131 ha Rapti Sonari fire, March 2016 6.2% of the municipality · 43,780 ha in total · 28 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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