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Wildfires in Sworgadwary

Sworgadwary, Nepal, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 1,205 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.3% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 13).

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 Moderate 25° · 20 % · 17 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Moderate 25° · 37 % · 25 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 18° · 64 % · 26 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 21° · 70 % · 26 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 24° · 58 % · 23 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 24° · 49 % · 23 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 24° · 42 % · 27 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 25° · 30 % · 22 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

1,205
hectares burned
5.3 %
of its area
5
fires
226
km²

How many times has Sworgadwary burned?

Sworgadwary has burned 5 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2021 and 2024. The most recent: Mandavi fire, April 2024, with 486 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
5
fires
3
years with fire
1,205
cumulative ha
21 Apr 2024
most recent

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 Sworgadwary

  1. 486 ha Mandavi fire, April 2024 2.2% of the municipality · 2,048 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 270 ha Pyuthan fire, April 2024 1.2% of the municipality · 2,495 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 2 ha Mandavi fire, April 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,190 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 23 ha Banglachuli fire, April 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 2,109 ha in total · 15 days
  5. 424 ha Mandavi fire, April 2016 1.9% of the municipality · 2,405 ha in total · 8 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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