Wildfires in Province 2
Province 2, Nepal: 20 fires with a page have entered 16 of its 139 municipalities since 2016, burning 92,647 hectares inside the region. The largest was Chitwan National Park in March 2021, with 17,310 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).
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
- 92,647ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 9.6%
- 9,629 km²
- fires
- 20
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 16
- of 139
- Largest fire
- 17,310ha
- Chitwan National Park · March 2021
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sun 25 Low 28° · 48 % · 21 km/h
- Mon 26 Low 29° · 43 % · 19 km/h
- Tue 27 Low 30° · 45 % · 18 km/h
- Wed 28 Moderate 30° · 39 % · 16 km/h
- Thu 29 Moderate 26° · 56 % · 21 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 23° · 77 % · 48 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 28° · 64 % · 67 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 28° · 74 % · 27 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Chitwan National Park 66,916 ha · 1.1×
- Jitpur Simara 5,611 ha · 18 %
- Bardibas 3,930 ha · 12 %
- Nijgadh 3,423 ha · 12 %
- Lalbandi 2,314 ha · 9.7 %
- Ishworpur 2,313 ha · 14 %
- Chandrapur 2,032 ha · 8.1 %
- Mithila 1,778 ha · 9.4 %
- Parsagadhi 1,506 ha · 15 %
- SakhuwaPrasauni 1,280 ha · 17 %
- Gaushala 551 ha · 3.8 %
- Paterwasugauli 431 ha · 6.6 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 13×Chitwan National Park66,916 ha
- 8×Jitpur Simara5,611 ha
- 8×Parsagadhi1,506 ha
- 5×Parsa Wildlife Reserve113 ha
- 4×Bardibas3,930 ha
- 4×SakhuwaPrasauni1,280 ha
- 4×Paterwasugauli431 ha
- 3×Ishworpur2,313 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 17,310 haChitwan National ParkMarch 2021 · 21 days
- 10,150 haChitwan National ParkMarch 2019 · 17 days
- 8,577 haChitwan National Park6 April 2026 · 20 days
- 7,890 haChitwan National ParkMarch 2018 · 19 days
- 4,787 haNijgadhMarch 2021 · 13 days
- 4,506 haSakhuwaPrasauniMarch 2024 · 13 days
- 4,504 haChitwan National ParkMarch 2016 · 11 days
- 4,497 haParsagadhiApril 2017 · 9 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 3 | 13,344 | Chitwan National Park 8,577 ha |
| 2025 | 1 | 2,201 | Chitwan National Park 2,201 ha |
| 2024 | 1 | 4,506 | SakhuwaPrasauni 4,506 ha |
| 2023 | 1 | 2,618 | Chitwan National Park 2,618 ha |
| 2022 | 1 | 2,466 | Chitwan National Park 2,466 ha |
| 2021 | 3 | 24,271 | Chitwan National Park 17,310 ha |
| 2020 | 1 | 2,240 | Chitwan National Park 2,240 ha |
| 2019 | 2 | 12,299 | Chitwan National Park 10,150 ha |
| 2018 | 2 | 11,399 | Chitwan National Park 7,890 ha |
| 2017 | 2 | 6,787 | Parsagadhi 4,497 ha |
| 2016 | 3 | 10,517 | Chitwan National Park 4,504 ha |
All fires in Province 2 · 20
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 2,459 haChitwan National Park10 April 2026 · 6 days
- 8,577 haChitwan National Park6 April 2026 · 20 days
- 2,308 haGaushalaMarch 2026 · 5 days
- 2,201 haChitwan National ParkMarch 2025 · 13 days
- 4,506 haSakhuwaPrasauniMarch 2024 · 13 days
- 2,618 haChitwan National ParkMarch 2023 · 12 days
- 2,466 haChitwan National ParkMarch 2022 · 5 days
- 4,787 haNijgadhMarch 2021 · 13 days
- 17,310 haChitwan National ParkMarch 2021 · 21 days
- 2,173 haChandrapurMarch 2021 · 20 days
- 2,240 haChitwan National ParkApril 2020 · 10 days
- 2,148 haMithilaMarch 2019 · 8 days of 5,464 ha in total
- 10,150 haChitwan National ParkMarch 2019 · 17 days
- 7,890 haChitwan National ParkMarch 2018 · 19 days
- 3,509 haBardibasMarch 2018 · 11 days of 5,483 ha in total
- 2,290 haChitwan National ParkApril 2017 · 4 days
- 4,497 haParsagadhiApril 2017 · 9 days
- 3,093 haKolhabiApril 2016 · 13 days
- 4,504 haChitwan National ParkMarch 2016 · 11 days
- 2,920 haIshworpurMarch 2016 · 14 days of 4,330 ha in total
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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