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Wildfires in Kamalamai

Kamalamai, Nepal, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 6,275 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 13% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 11).

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 8 Low 25° · 49 % · 25 km/h
  2. Mon 9 Low 26° · 34 % · 42 km/h
  3. Tue 10 Moderate 25° · 35 % · 22 km/h
  4. Wed 11 Low 23° · 50 % · 20 km/h
  5. Thu 12 Very low 22° · 51 % · 25 km/h
  6. Fri 13 Low 22° · 58 % · 29 km/h
  7. Sat 14 Low 22° · 58 % · 24 km/h
  8. Sun 15 Very low 22° · 64 % · 28 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Kamalamai: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

6,275
hectares burned
13 %
of its area
3
fires
484
km²

How many times has Kamalamai burned?

Kamalamai has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2018 and 2019. The most recent: Mithila fire, March 2019, with 3,336 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 6,275 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,504 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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3
fires
3
years with fire
6,275
cumulative ha
5,504
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 Kamalamai

  1. 3,336 ha Mithila fire, March 2019 6.9% of the municipality · 5,461 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 1,510 ha Bardibas fire, March 2018 3.1% of the municipality · 5,483 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 1,430 ha Ishworpur fire, March 2016 3.0% of the municipality · 4,330 ha in total · 14 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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