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Wildfires in Lalbandi

Lalbandi, Nepal, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 2,314 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.7% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 13).

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. Fri 13 Moderate 26° · 54 % · 16 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Moderate 26° · 52 % · 20 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Moderate 26° · 53 % · 22 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Moderate 26° · 57 % · 24 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Moderate 24° · 52 % · 22 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Moderate 25° · 45 % · 18 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Moderate 26° · 49 % · 20 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Moderate 27° · 48 % · 18 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 Lalbandi: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

2,314
hectares burned
9.7 %
of its area
2
fires
239
km²

How many times has Lalbandi burned?

Lalbandi has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2018. The most recent: Bardibas fire, March 2018, with 1,561 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 2,314 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,783 hectares, 7.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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2
fires
2
years with fire
2,314
cumulative ha
1,783
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 Lalbandi

  1. 1,561 ha Bardibas fire, March 2018 6.5% of the municipality · 5,483 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 752 ha Ishworpur fire, March 2016 3.2% 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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