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Wildfires in Turmakhad

Turmakhad, Nepal, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 6,672 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 29% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Mon 2 Very low 22° · 53 % · 21 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 22° · 54 % · 22 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 22° · 55 % · 21 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 22° · 51 % · 23 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 22° · 48 % · 22 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 22° · 52 % · 24 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 22° · 46 % · 22 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Low 23° · 30 % · 24 km/h
  9. Tue 10 Low 23° · 28 % · 26 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

6,672
hectares burned
29 %
of its area
4
fires
233
km²

How many times has Turmakhad burned?

Turmakhad has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2018, 2021, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Turmakhad fire, April 2026, with 1,584 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 6,672 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,478 hectares, 24 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
4
fires
4
years with fire
6,672
cumulative ha
5,478
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 Turmakhad

  1. 1,584 ha Turmakhad fire, April 2026 where it started 6.8% of the municipality · 2,769 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 800 ha Turmakhad fire, April 2022 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 2,047 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 2,017 ha Turmakhad fire, April 2021 where it started 8.7% of the municipality · 2,012 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 2,271 ha Turmakhad fire, April 2018 where it started 9.8% of the municipality · 2,581 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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