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Wildfires in Shiwalaya

Shiwalaya, Nepal, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 5,531 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 41% 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. Wed 11 Moderate 18° · 40 % · 32 km/h
  2. Thu 12 Low 17° · 55 % · 22 km/h
  3. Fri 13 Low 18° · 59 % · 22 km/h
  4. Sat 14 Low 19° · 60 % · 22 km/h
  5. Sun 15 Low 18° · 57 % · 28 km/h
  6. Mon 16 Low 19° · 38 % · 20 km/h
  7. Tue 17 Low 19° · 48 % · 20 km/h
  8. Wed 18 Low 19° · 52 % · 20 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 Shiwalaya: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

5,531
hectares burned
41 %
of its area
4
fires
135
km²

How many times has Shiwalaya burned?

Shiwalaya has burned 4 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2021. The most recent: Shiwalaya fire, April 2021, with 1,928 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 5,531 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 4,270 hectares, 32 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 3× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
2
years with fire
5,531
cumulative ha
4,270
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 Shiwalaya

  1. 1,928 ha Shiwalaya fire, April 2021 where it started 14% of the municipality · 2,005 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 359 ha Shiwalaya fire, March 2021 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 2,540 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 51 ha Bangad Kupinde fire, March 2021 0.4% of the municipality · 7,873 ha in total · 21 days
  4. 3,194 ha Shiwalaya fire, April 2016 where it started 24% of the municipality · 6,550 ha in total · 13 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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