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Wildfires in Rapti Sonari

Rapti Sonari, Nepal: 14 fires since 2016 burned 162,599 hectares inside its boundaries, 1.6 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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. Tue 3 Very low 27° · 63 % · 28 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very low 27° · 61 % · 21 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very low 26° · 61 % · 20 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 26° · 61 % · 17 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 25° · 67 % · 18 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 26° · 67 % · 18 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Low 27° · 54 % · 17 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Low 27° · 61 % · 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

162,599
hectares burned
1.6×
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
14
fires
1,045
km²

How many times has Rapti Sonari burned?

Rapti Sonari has burned 14 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Kalimati fire, April 2026, with 16,753 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 162,599 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 46,245 hectares, 44 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 4× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 4× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
14
fires
8
years with fire
162,599
cumulative ha
46,245
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 Rapti Sonari

  1. 16,753 ha Kalimati fire, April 2026 16% of the municipality · 17,411 ha in total · 19 days
  2. 3,021 ha Rapti Sonari fire, April 2024 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 3,010 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 2,116 ha Rapti Sonari fire, 9 May 2023 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,107 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 7,035 ha Rapti Sonari fire, 9 May 2023 where it started 6.7% of the municipality · 7,091 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 1,794 ha Rapti Sonari fire, 10 April 2023 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,555 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 3,181 ha Rapti Sonari fire, 10 April 2023 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 3,833 ha in total · 14 days
  7. 23,576 ha Rapti Sonari fire, April 2022 where it started 23% of the municipality · 26,185 ha in total · 21 days
  8. 17,250 ha Babai fire, March 2021 17% of the municipality · 19,256 ha in total · 31 days
  9. 1,363 ha Rapti Sonari fire, May 2019 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,234 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 1,672 ha Dangisharan fire, April 2019 1.6% of the municipality · 2,799 ha in total · 18 days
  11. 2,798 ha Rapti Sonari fire, 18 April 2019 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 3,535 ha in total · 13 days
  12. 22,722 ha Rapti Sonari fire, 16 April 2019 where it started 22% of the municipality · 26,744 ha in total · 28 days
  13. 28,592 ha Rapti Sonari fire, April 2017 where it started 27% of the municipality · 36,223 ha in total · 22 days
  14. 30,726 ha Rapti Sonari fire, March 2016 where it started 29% of the municipality · 43,780 ha in total · 28 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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