2022 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa wildfires explained

2022 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa wildfires
Date:	May 2022 – June 2022
Location:	Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Area:	14,430 acres
Fatalities:	4
Landuse:	Forests and pastures

From the end of May to mid June 2022, more than 200 forest fires in different districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa damaged 14,430 acres of forests and pastures.^[1] While 402 incidents of forest fires were reported in one month. The highest number of 129 forest fires was reported in Abbottabad District. According to the report, forest fires broke out at 55 places in Mansehra District, 29 in Lakki Marwat District, 39 in Dera Ismail Khan District and 24 in Swat District.^{[2] [3] [4]}

Haripur wildfire

On 16 May 2022, hundreds of acres of forest trees were uprooted and hundreds of large trees and shrubs were reduced to ashes in 70% of the forest area, in the hilly area of Makniyal in the Khanpur Tehsil of Haripur District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.^{[5] [6] [7]}

Shangla District wildfire

On 4 June 2022, a forest fire broke out in Ali Jan Capri area of Chakesar, a remote area of Shangla District, Pakistan, as a result of which a girl, two children and a woman were burnt to death while collecting firewood.^{[8] [9] [10]}

Some people have also been injured and they have been shifted to Tehsil Headquarters Hospital Chakesar. Rescue operation is still going on.^[11]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ashfaq . Mohammad . 12 June 2022 . KP wildfires damage forests, pastures over 14,430 acres in fortnight, reveals report . 12 December 2022 . Dawn.
2. Web site: 9 June 2022 . خیبرپختونخوا,صرف1 ماہ میں جنگلات میں آگ لگنے کے 402 واقعات، تحقیقات شروع . 12 December 2022 . Daily Pakistan . ur.
3. Web site: 12 June 2022 . Human action causes 55 wildfires . 12 December 2022 . The Express Tribune.
4. Web site: 6 June 2022 . Wildfires in KP . 12 December 2022 . The Nation.
5. Web site: Wildfire destroyed hundreds of acres of forest land in Haripur .
6. Web site: 16 May 2022 . Wildfire destroys forest in Haripur as fire-fighters continue efforts .
7. Web site: 16 May 2022 . Wildfires ravage forests in Haripur, Mansehra .
8. Web site: 4 June 2022 . Four of a family killed as wildfire erupts in Shangla .
9. Web site: 4 June 2022 . Four of a family perish as wildfire breaks out in Shangla .
10. Web site: 4 June 2022 . Child among 4 of same family burnt in Shangla wildfire .
11. Web site: Four dead in forest fire at Shangla district .