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Wildfires in Karnali

Karnali, Nepal: 57 fires with a page have entered 22 of its 80 municipalities since 2016, burning 128,816 hectares inside the region. The largest was Bangad Kupinde in March 2021, with 7,907 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 11).

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
128,816ha
Since 2016
Of the region
4.2%
30,815 km²
fires
57
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
22
of 80
Largest fire
7,907ha
Bangad Kupinde · March 2021
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 24 Moderate 13° · 17 % · 45 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 14° · 15 % · 29 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Moderate 15° · 14 % · 27 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Moderate 16° · 14 % · 26 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Moderate 16° · 23 % · 26 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Moderate 15° · 29 % · 35 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 7° · 74 % · 19 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 14° · 50 % · 23 km/h

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Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Bangad Kupinde 23,746 ha · 70 %
  2. Simta 16,181 ha · 67 %
  3. Panchpuri 15,158 ha · 46 %
  4. Kalimati 14,796 ha · 29 %
  5. Chaukune 11,495 ha · 30 %
  6. Turmakhad 6,672 ha · 29 %
  7. Bheriganga 6,455 ha · 25 %
  8. Birendranagar 5,636 ha · 23 %
  9. Kumakhmalika 5,552 ha · 31 %
  10. Shiwalaya 5,531 ha · 41 %
  11. Barahtal 3,778 ha · 8.3 %
  12. Sharada 3,741 ha · 19 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
2026312,973 Bangad Kupinde 6,815 ha
202332,265 Chaukune 2,075 ha
2022712,138 Panchpuri 2,375 ha
20211535,954 Bangad Kupinde 7,907 ha
2019815,898 Kumakhmalika 3,504 ha
201858,303 Bangad Kupinde 3,000 ha
201726,800 Panchpuri 3,565 ha
20161434,486 Shiwalaya 6,573 ha

All fires in Karnali · 57

Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.

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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