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Wildfires in Upper Orakzai

Upper Orakzai, Pakistan, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 6,288 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 24% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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. Sun 25 Very low 16° · 46 % · 26 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Low 17° · 39 % · 29 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Low 18° · 29 % · 28 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Moderate 19° · 22 % · 29 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Moderate 19° · 19 % · 31 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Moderate 18° · 26 % · 36 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Moderate 18° · 24 % · 31 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Moderate 19° · 24 % · 33 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

6,288
hectares burned
24 %
of its area
5
fires
262
km²

How many times has Upper Orakzai burned?

Upper Orakzai has burned 5 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2018 and 2023. The most recent: Upper Orakzai fire, January 2023, with 1,349 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 6,288 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,680 hectares, 22 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
5
fires
3
years with fire
6,288
cumulative ha
5,680
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 Upper Orakzai

  1. 1,349 ha Upper Orakzai fire, January 2023 where it started 5.1% of the municipality · 1,346 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,041 ha Upper Orakzai fire, January 2018 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 1,039 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,070 ha Upper Orakzai fire, December 2016 where it started 4.1% of the municipality · 1,350 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 1,585 ha Upper Orakzai fire, October 2016 where it started 6.0% of the municipality · 1,760 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 1,243 ha Upper Orakzai fire, February 2016 where it started 4.7% of the municipality · 1,240 ha in total · 4 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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