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Wildfires in Lumbini

Lumbini, Nepal: 51 fires with a page have entered 32 of its 112 municipalities since 2016, burning 338,406 hectares inside the region. The largest was Rapti Sonari in March 2016, with 40,815 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
338,406ha
Since 2016
Of the region
18%
19,325 km²
fires
51
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
32
of 112
Largest fire
40,815ha
Rapti Sonari · March 2016
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Low 25° · 54 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 25° · 60 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 25° · 57 % · 19 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 26° · 54 % · 19 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 27° · 37 % · 18 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 28° · 41 % · 17 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 26° · 48 % · 22 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 92 % · 35 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

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. Rapti Sonari 162,599 ha · 1.6×
  2. Bardiya National Park 64,124 ha · 71 %
  3. Babai 17,596 ha · 87 %
  4. Sitganga 14,155 ha · 23 %
  5. Kohalpur 13,405 ha · 73 %
  6. Sarumarani 9,097 ha · 57 %
  7. Banglachuli 8,337 ha · 34 %
  8. Dangisharan 7,531 ha · 68 %
  9. Mandavi 5,202 ha · 46 %
  10. Sainamaina 4,917 ha · 30 %
  11. Baijanath 4,772 ha · 34 %
  12. Rapti 3,072 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
2026117,478 Rapti Sonari 17,478 ha
2024512,755 Bardiya National Park 3,067 ha
2023722,433 Rapti Sonari 7,045 ha
2022433,711 Rapti Sonari 24,208 ha
20211052,809 Babai 18,745 ha
2019954,866 Rapti Sonari 26,348 ha
201813,474 Bardiya National Park 3,474 ha
2017235,520 Rapti Sonari 33,125 ha
201612105,360 Rapti Sonari 40,815 ha

All fires in Lumbini · 51

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).