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Wildfires in Lower Kurram

Lower Kurram, Pakistan, has had 16 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 20,290 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 22% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).

Only fires of 1,000 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. Sat 14 Very low 19° · 40 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Low 20° · 26 % · 24 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Moderate 20° · 26 % · 22 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Moderate 21° · 22 % · 22 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Moderate 21° · 19 % · 23 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Moderate 23° · 17 % · 18 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Moderate 22° · 18 % · 22 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Moderate 20° · 28 % · 17 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 Lower Kurram: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

20,290
hectares burned
22 %
of its area
16
fires
943
km²

How many times has Lower Kurram burned?

Lower Kurram has burned 16 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Lower Kurram fire, February 2026, with 1,155 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 20,290 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 14,752 hectares, 16 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 2× 26
16
fires
8
years with fire
20,290
cumulative ha
14,752
distinct ha

Fires larger than 1,000 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 Pakistan

Fires that entered Lower Kurram

  1. 1,155 ha Lower Kurram fire, February 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,270 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 857 ha Lower Kurram fire, January 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,108 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 1,213 ha Lower Kurram fire, November 2025 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,208 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 1,159 ha Lower Kurram fire, March 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,158 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 1,129 ha Lower Kurram fire, January 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,248 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 1,270 ha Lower Kurram fire, February 2024 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,267 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 1,493 ha Lower Kurram fire, June 2022 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,490 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 1,525 ha Lower Kurram fire, April 2022 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,522 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 1,113 ha Lower Kurram fire, March 2022 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,172 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 1,994 ha Lower Kurram fire, November 2021 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 1,991 ha in total · 7 days
  11. 922 ha Lower Kurram fire, 28 February 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,040 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 1,118 ha Lower Kurram fire, 27 February 2021 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,117 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 1,086 ha Lower Kurram fire, January 2021 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,084 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 1,789 ha Lower Kurram fire, November 2020 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 1,782 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 1,441 ha Lower Kurram fire, December 2019 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,439 ha in total · 9 days
  16. 1,024 ha Lower Kurram fire, January 2018 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,021 ha in total · 6 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Pathways Data Pvt. Ltd., https//www.pbs.gov.pk/content/population-census/ (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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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