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Wildfires in Parashuram

Parashuram, Nepal, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 7,930 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 19% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).

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 25 Low 25° · 39 % · 23 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Low 25° · 35 % · 25 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Moderate 25° · 28 % · 23 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Moderate 28° · 26 % · 28 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Moderate 25° · 36 % · 21 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Low 25° · 47 % · 27 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Low 24° · 60 % · 29 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Low 24° · 64 % · 30 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

7,930
hectares burned
19 %
of its area
6
fires
414
km²

How many times has Parashuram burned?

Parashuram has burned 6 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2019 and 2021. The most recent: Krishnapur fire, March 2021, with 521 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 7,930 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,883 hectares, 14 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
6
fires
3
years with fire
7,930
cumulative ha
5,883
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 Parashuram

  1. 521 ha Krishnapur fire, March 2021 1.3% of the municipality · 3,762 ha in total · 20 days
  2. 3,432 ha Parashuram fire, May 2019 where it started 8.3% of the municipality · 5,158 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 556 ha Chure fire, April 2019 1.3% of the municipality · 14,029 ha in total · 29 days
  4. 1,588 ha Alital fire, 14 April 2016 3.8% of the municipality · 4,087 ha in total · 19 days
  5. 239 ha Jorayal fire, April 2016 0.6% of the municipality · 21,988 ha in total · 21 days
  6. 1,594 ha Alital fire, 12 April 2016 3.8% of the municipality · 2,179 ha in total · 5 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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