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Wildfires in India

374 fires over 5,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 4,341,103 hectares burned across 367 subdistricts.

Only fires of 5,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the entry totals, but they are in the GWIS yearly series.

The season, week by week

Copernicus GWIS

India, at this point in the year: 4,088,634 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 5,460,416.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–20256,671,307 ha

Worst year2021 11,506,742 ha

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	13,846	4,096,290	GWIS
2025	15,262	4,687,642	GWIS
2024	13,016	3,873,923	GWIS
2023	18,190	5,307,762	GWIS
2022	25,601	7,617,190	GWIS
2021	33,772	11,506,742	GWIS
2020	17,575	5,365,700	GWIS
2019	20,372	6,166,422	GWIS
2018	23,119	6,488,799	GWIS
2017	22,756	7,067,707	GWIS
2016	26,312	8,631,180	GWIS
2015	17,644	5,303,221	GWIS
2014	20,185	6,469,326	GWIS
2013	18,647	5,623,851	GWIS
2012	24,814	8,023,418	GWIS

National estimates from Copernicus GWIS, rebuilt from heat detections since 2012.

Hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS by the fire’s starting month, and the largest fire of each year.