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Wildfires in Calcutta

Calcutta, Suriname, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2026: 340 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.2% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

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. Fri 30 Low 34° · 49 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Moderate 35° · 38 % · 34 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Low 34° · 54 % · 34 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Moderate 36° · 37 % · 37 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Moderate 36° · 36 % · 36 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Moderate 36° · 33 % · 38 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Moderate 36° · 42 % · 40 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Moderate 36° · 34 % · 39 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

340
hectares burned
0.2 %
of its area
1
fires
1,772
km²

How many times has Calcutta burned?

Calcutta has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2026. The most recent: Tijgerkreek fire, October 2026, with 340 hectares inside the municipality.

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1
fires
1
years with fire
340
cumulative ha
7 Oct 2026
most recent

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 Suriname →

Fires that entered Calcutta

  1. 340 ha Tijgerkreek fire, October 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 1,540 ha in total · 17 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/geoBoundaries, Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain). 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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