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Wildfires in Kumakhmalika

Kumakhmalika, Nepal, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 5,552 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 31% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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 7 Low 21° · 52 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sun 8 Low 21° · 59 % · 23 km/h
  3. Mon 9 Very low 22° · 40 % · 23 km/h
  4. Tue 10 Low 22° · 33 % · 24 km/h
  5. Wed 11 Moderate 21° · 31 % · 36 km/h
  6. Thu 12 Low 20° · 48 % · 28 km/h
  7. Fri 13 Low 20° · 54 % · 30 km/h
  8. Sat 14 Low 20° · 69 % · 32 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 Kumakhmalika: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

5,552
hectares burned
31 %
of its area
5
fires
178
km²

How many times has Kumakhmalika burned?

Kumakhmalika has burned 5 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Bangad Kupinde fire, April 2026, with 6 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 5,552 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,987 hectares, 22 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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5
fires
5
years with fire
5,552
cumulative ha
3,987
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 Kumakhmalika

  1. 6 ha Bangad Kupinde fire, April 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 6,785 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 1,395 ha Bangad Kupinde fire, March 2021 7.8% of the municipality · 7,873 ha in total · 21 days
  3. 2,990 ha Kumakhmalika fire, May 2019 where it started 17% of the municipality · 3,490 ha in total · 17 days
  4. 41 ha Bangad Kupinde fire, May 2018 0.2% of the municipality · 2,986 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 1,121 ha Dhorchaur fire, April 2016 6.3% of the municipality · 2,459 ha in total · 6 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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