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Wildfires in Sunwal

Sunwal, Nepal, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2016: 2,612 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 15% 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. Fri 23 Low 29° · 53 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 29° · 52 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 29° · 54 % · 16 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 30° · 52 % · 12 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 30° · 46 % · 14 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 30° · 45 % · 16 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 67 % · 30 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 22° · 88 % · 42 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

2,612
hectares burned
15 %
of its area
1
fires
174
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Sunwal

  1. 2,612 ha Sunwal fire, April 2016 where it started 15% of the municipality · 6,973 ha in total · 7 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).