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Wildfires in Lower Orakzai

Lower Orakzai, Pakistan, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 6,998 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 13% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).

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. Thu 5 Moderate 20° · 42 % · 26 km/h
  2. Fri 6 Moderate 22° · 36 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Moderate 24° · 26 % · 19 km/h
  4. Sun 8 Moderate 23° · 34 % · 21 km/h
  5. Mon 9 Moderate 21° · 50 % · 22 km/h
  6. Tue 10 Low 21° · 52 % · 18 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Very low 18° · 53 % · 20 km/h
  8. Thu 12 Very low 18° · 57 % · 20 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 Orakzai: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

6,998
hectares burned
13 %
of its area
6
fires
521
km²

How many times has Lower Orakzai burned?

Lower Orakzai has burned 6 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2019, 2020 and 2021. The most recent: Lower Orakzai fire, December 2021, with 1,265 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 6,998 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 4,776 hectares, 9.2 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
6
fires
4
years with fire
6,998
cumulative ha
4,776
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 Orakzai

  1. 1,265 ha Lower Orakzai fire, December 2021 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,262 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,387 ha FR Kohat fire, October 2020 2.7% of the municipality · 1,536 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 1,253 ha Lower Orakzai fire, December 2019 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,250 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 1,197 ha Lower Orakzai fire, 30 November 2016 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 1,971 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 480 ha Kohat fire, November 2016 0.9% of the municipality · 1,679 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 1,415 ha Lower Orakzai fire, 12 November 2016 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 1,412 ha in total · 5 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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