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Wildfires in Shuklaphanta

Shuklaphanta, Nepal, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 3,526 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 22% 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. Wed 28 Low 27° · 34 % · 17 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Low 26° · 45 % · 21 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Low 26° · 48 % · 18 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 25° · 59 % · 22 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 25° · 66 % · 22 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 26° · 61 % · 23 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Low 25° · 58 % · 20 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Low 25° · 55 % · 21 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

3,526
hectares burned
22 %
of its area
3
fires
163
km²

How many times has Shuklaphanta burned?

Shuklaphanta has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2019 and 2021. The most recent: Krishnapur fire, March 2021, with 1,164 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 3,526 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 2,615 hectares, 16 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
3,526
cumulative ha
2,615
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 Shuklaphanta

  1. 1,164 ha Krishnapur fire, March 2021 7.2% of the municipality · 3,762 ha in total · 20 days
  2. 55 ha Chure fire, 23 April 2019 0.3% of the municipality · 14,029 ha in total · 29 days
  3. 2,307 ha Alital fire, 14 April 2016 14% of the municipality · 4,087 ha in total · 19 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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