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Wildfires in Mohanyal

Mohanyal, Nepal, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 15,969 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 25% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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 28° · 45 % · 21 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Low 28° · 39 % · 20 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Low 28° · 39 % · 16 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Moderate 29° · 37 % · 21 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Low 26° · 58 % · 18 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Low 26° · 62 % · 22 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Low 27° · 60 % · 23 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Low 28° · 61 % · 24 km/h
  9. Tue 3 Low 27° · 61 % · 25 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

15,969
hectares burned
25 %
of its area
11
fires
628
km²

How many times has Mohanyal burned?

Mohanyal has burned 11 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2019 and 2021. The most recent: Mohanyal fire, April 2021, with 391 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 15,969 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 14,114 hectares, 22 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 5× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 4× 19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
11
fires
3
years with fire
15,969
cumulative ha
14,114
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 Mohanyal

  1. 391 ha Mohanyal fire, April 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,828 ha in total · 18 days
  2. 3,446 ha Mohanyal fire, March 2021 where it started 5.5% of the municipality · 3,431 ha in total · 21 days
  3. 21 ha Chaukune fire, May 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 2,455 ha in total · 19 days
  4. 15 ha Bardiya National Park fire, May 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 9,172 ha in total · 18 days
  5. 2,350 ha Mohanyal fire, 5 May 2019 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 2,342 ha in total · 13 days
  6. 2,732 ha Mohanyal fire, 2 May 2019 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 2,827 ha in total · 15 days
  7. 13 ha Badikedar fire, 27 April 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 2,413 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 2,238 ha Mohanyal fire, 20 April 2016 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 2,315 ha in total · 11 days
  9. 2,131 ha Ghodaghodi fire, 20 April 2016 3.4% of the municipality · 3,016 ha in total · 12 days
  10. 28 ha Chaukune fire, 8 April 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 2,207 ha in total · 16 days
  11. 2,605 ha Mohanyal fire, 3 April 2016 where it started 4.2% of the municipality · 2,595 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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