| 2022 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa wildfires | |
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| Date(s) | May 2022 – June 2022 |
| Location | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan |
| Statistics | |
| Burned area | 14,430 acres |
| Land use | Forests and pastures |
| Impacts | |
| Deaths | 4 |
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]
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 TehsilofHaripur District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.[5][6][7]
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]
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