Wildfires in Bagmati
Bagmati, Nepal: 16 fires with a page have entered 15 of its 125 municipalities since 2016, burning 35,007 hectares inside the region. The largest was Mithila in March 2019, with 3,336 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).
Only fires of 2,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.
- hectares burned
- 35,007ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.7%
- 20,378 km²
- fires
- 16
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 15
- of 125
- Largest fire
- 3,336ha
- Mithila · March 2019
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sat 24 Low 23° · 47 % · 23 km/h
- Sun 25 Low 23° · 45 % · 26 km/h
- Mon 26 Low 24° · 43 % · 23 km/h
- Tue 27 Low 26° · 42 % · 18 km/h
- Wed 28 Low 26° · 36 % · 19 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 22° · 50 % · 21 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 17° · 93 % · 40 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 24° · 64 % · 41 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- Bagmati 9,527 ha · 30 %
- Kamalamai 6,275 ha · 13 %
- Bakaiya 3,906 ha · 9.9 %
- Chitawan National Park 2,683 ha · 2.9 %
- Hariharpurgadhi 2,386 ha · 6.9 %
- Rapti 2,064 ha · 9.7 %
- Ramechhap 2,040 ha · 10 %
- Chitawan National Park 1,708 ha · 26 %
- Bagmati 1,461 ha · 13 %
- Mahankal 789 ha · 9.5 %
- Parsa Wildlife Reserve 773 ha · 7.9 %
- Marin 488 ha · 1.6 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 6×Bagmati9,527 ha
- 4×Bakaiya3,906 ha
- 3×Kamalamai6,275 ha
- 2×Chitawan National Park2,683 ha
- 2×Hariharpurgadhi2,386 ha
- 2×Chitawan National Park1,708 ha
- 2×Bagmati1,461 ha
- 2×Mahankal789 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 3,336 haMithilaMarch 2019 · 7 days of 5,464 ha in total
- 3,263 haBagmati17 March 2016 · 6 days
- 2,837 haBakaiyaMarch 2021 · 6 days
- 2,790 haBagmatiMarch 2021 · 9 days
- 2,607 haChitawan National ParkMarch 2021 · 6 days
- 2,570 haBagmati17 March 2016 · 5 days
- 2,558 haParsa Wildlife ReserveMarch 2025 · 9 days
- 2,361 haHariharpurgadhiApril 2016 · 7 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Bagmati · 16
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 2,558 haParsa Wildlife ReserveMarch 2025 · 9 days
- 2,040 haRamechhapApril 2023 · 4 days of 2,928 ha in total
- 2,607 haChitawan National ParkMarch 2021 · 6 days
- 2,837 haBakaiyaMarch 2021 · 6 days
- 2,064 haRaptiMarch 2021 · 7 days
- 2,790 haBagmatiMarch 2021 · 9 days
- 92 haChitwan National ParkMarch 2021 · 15 days of 17,342 ha in total
- 452 haKatariMarch 2019 · 4 days of 2,188 ha in total
- 3,336 haMithilaMarch 2019 · 7 days of 5,464 ha in total
- 1,999 haBardibasMarch 2018 · 11 days of 5,483 ha in total
- 2,282 haMahankalApril 2016 · 6 days
- 2,361 haHariharpurgadhiApril 2016 · 7 days
- 2,328 haBagmatiApril 2016 · 8 days
- 1,430 haIshworpurMarch 2016 · 7 days of 4,330 ha in total
- 3,263 haBagmati17 March 2016 · 6 days
- 2,570 haBagmati17 March 2016 · 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/Survey Department of Nepal, OCHA FISS (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). 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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