Burned area
satellite only1,774ha
Perimeter published by GWIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- 25 Oct 2025 – 16 Nov 2025
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PK · Pakistan · –
18-Hazari fire, October 2025 18-Hazari, Jhang
Out · last detection 16 Nov 2025, 08:06 UTC
The fire started on 25 October 2025 in 18-Hazari, Pakistan, and satellites saw it burning for 23 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,774 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
Number 10 in Pakistan in 2025, of 26.
GWIS near-real-time perimeter, from the layer that changed in October 2025: this fire is not compared with fires from earlier years, because since then the GWIS layer gives more and larger perimeters.
The power measured by the satellite is low (17.6 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only23days
25 Oct 2025 to 16 Nov 2025: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 16 Nov 2025, 08:06 UTC
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Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
Start
satellite only25 Oct 2025
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 25 Oct 2025
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Hotspots
satellite only47
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 18 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP + NOAA-20)
- Date
- 25 Oct 2025 – 16 Nov 2025
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There is no official record to compare with. Each hotspot is a pixel detected in one satellite pass, not a separate fire.
The worst day
satellite only31MW
Total radiative power on 12 November 2025; hotspots that day: 3.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 12 Nov 2025
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Fire radiative power (FRP) measures the energy the fire gives off when the satellite passes. Added up by day, it compares intensity, not area.
Danger at the start
model29.9FWI · high
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 18.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 25 Oct 2025, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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This is an index computed from weather model data, not a measurement of the fire nor an official warning. Danger warnings are issued by each country’s authority. Emergency number and official warnings
Weather during the fire
model32.8°C · 34% RH
High of 32.8 °C and minimum humidity of 34% on 25 October 2025; gusts of 39 km/h on 4 November 2025.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 25 Oct 2025 – 16 Nov 2025
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
Living inside
model≈ 8,100people
Estimated residents inside the perimeter and 44 ha of built-up area (100 m grid, epoch 2025).
- Source
- GHSL R2023A · JRC
- Date
- calculated on 24 October 2026
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This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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logLast day with fire: 12 November 2025 → 16 November 2025.
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logStart date: 1 November 2025 → 25 October 2025.
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· reconstructed weatherWeather and FWI computed from the ERA5 reanalysis
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logLast day with fire: 16 November 2025 → 12 November 2025.
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logStart date: 25 October 2025 → 1 November 2025.
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logLast day with fire: 12 November 2025 → 16 November 2025.
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logStart date: 1 November 2025 → 25 October 2025.
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· reconstructed GHSLPopulation and built-up area computed
Area logged each night
Move the slider to see which area the page published each day.
Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/18-hazari-2025-11?v=2026-11-05A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
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CSV for this fire 18-hazari-2025-11.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-25 | 1 | 4 | 32.8 | 20.1 | 34 | 11.3 | 24.1 | 0 | 29.9 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-10-26 | 2 | 11 | 32.7 | 19.7 | 33 | 10.3 | 22 | 0 | 28 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-10-27 | 1 | 4 | 32.4 | 20.9 | 34 | 9.3 | 18.7 | 0 | 23.2 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-10-28 | 0 | 0 | 30.8 | 20.8 | 44 | 9.4 | 17.3 | 0 | 20.1 | moderado | 1 |
| 2025-10-29 | 2 | 7 | 31.6 | 20.6 | 43 | 9.1 | 15.8 | 0 | 18.3 | moderado | 1 |
| 2025-10-30 | 2 | 8 | 31.4 | 21.2 | 38 | 8.8 | 21.2 | 0 | 22.3 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-10-31 | 1 | 2 | 32.6 | 19 | 30 | 9.1 | 20.5 | 0 | 23.6 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-01 | 3 | 18 | 31.9 | 19.4 | 37 | 9.6 | 20.5 | 0 | 23.2 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-02 | 0 | 0 | 32.2 | 19.6 | 37 | 9.4 | 22 | 0 | 24.1 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-03 | 2 | 12 | 30.9 | 19.7 | 38 | 9.6 | 14.4 | 0 | 19.4 | moderado | 1 |
| 2025-11-04 | 7 | 26 | 30.2 | 16.9 | 33 | 16.9 | 39.2 | 0 | 21.3 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-05 | 4 | 15 | 27.6 | 17.3 | 22 | 16.6 | 34.2 | 0 | 38.7 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-06 | 3 | 9 | 29.5 | 15 | 19 | 12 | 26.6 | 0 | 37.3 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-07 | 0 | 0 | 29.7 | 13.2 | 19 | 10.8 | 20.9 | 0 | 32.4 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-08 | 3 | 10 | 29.1 | 13.7 | 21 | 10 | 18.7 | 0 | 31.5 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-09 | 1 | 5 | 29 | 13.3 | 18 | 11.1 | 16.6 | 0 | 30.7 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-10 | 5 | 25 | 28 | 13.5 | 28 | 11.1 | 16.2 | 0 | 28.9 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-11 | 0 | 0 | 27.4 | 14.1 | 29 | 7.6 | 15.5 | 0 | 26 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-12 | 3 | 31 | 28 | 13.1 | 24 | 11.4 | 19.4 | 0 | 29.7 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-13 | 0 | 0 | 29.2 | 12.8 | 25 | 10.7 | 23.4 | 0 | 30.4 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-14 | 1 | 3 | 27.9 | 13.8 | 29 | 10.9 | 20.2 | 0 | 27.6 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-15 | 4 | 13 | 27.7 | 13.4 | 29 | 6.4 | 14.4 | 0 | 24.4 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-16 | 2 | 15 | 27.5 | 13.3 | 27 | 7.4 | 17.3 | 0 | 25.8 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-17 | 0 | 0 | 27.3 | 12.9 | 29 | 10.1 | 20.2 | 0 | 28.2 | alto | 0 |
| 2025-11-18 | 0 | 0 | 26.3 | 11.8 | 31 | 8.5 | 12.6 | 0 | 24.1 | alto | 0 |
| 2025-11-19 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 11.9 | 37 | 8.1 | 13.3 | 0 | 23 | alto | 0 |
| 2025-11-20 | 0 | 0 | 25.7 | 12.8 | 38 | 7.9 | 16.9 | 0 | 23.7 | alto | 0 |
| 2025-11-21 | 0 | 0 | 25.5 | 13.2 | 37 | 6.8 | 15.1 | 0 | 21.6 | alto | 0 |
| 2025-11-22 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 11.1 | 29 | 9.9 | 20.9 | 0 | 25.6 | alto | 0 |
| 2025-11-23 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 12 | 37 | 8.4 | 18.7 | 0 | 25.2 | alto | 0 |
| 2025-11-24 | 0 | 0 | 24.4 | 11.3 | 42 | 9.1 | 18.4 | 0 | 22.6 | alto | 0 |
| 2025-11-25 | 0 | 0 | 24.6 | 10.3 | 36 | 11.1 | 22.3 | 0 | 25.7 | alto | 0 |
| 2025-11-26 | 0 | 0 | 23.6 | 9.8 | 36 | 10.6 | 16.9 | 0 | 21.1 | moderado | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 1,774ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 23days
- 25 Oct 2025 – 16 Nov 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- subdistricts
- Started on
- 25 Oct
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 47
- in a single hotspot: 18 MW
- Danger at start
- 30
- High · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 12MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
25 Oct16 Nov
16 Nov 2025
How it evolved, day by day
25 Oct
30 Oct
4 Nov
12 Nov
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
33°high
39km/h · peak gust
18%lowest humidity
It had gone 18 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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18-Hazari where it started897 ha reached on 1 Nov0.5 %
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883 ha reached on 25 Oct0.3 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2025Built-up area44 ha
Residents≈ 8,100
Inside the perimeter there were about 44 hectares of built-up land and about 8,100 residents (GHSL 2025, satellite-based estimate).
This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.
Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu
The weather day by day
ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.
Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
| Day | High | Min. humidity | Peak gust | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 Oct | 32.8 °C | 34 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 26 Oct | 32.7 °C | 33 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 27 Oct | 32.4 °C | 34 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 28 Oct | 30.8 °C | 44 % | 17 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 29 Oct | 31.6 °C | 43 % | 16 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 30 Oct | 31.4 °C | 38 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 31 Oct | 32.6 °C | 30 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 1 Nov | 31.9 °C | 37 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 2 Nov | 32.2 °C | 37 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 3 Nov | 30.9 °C | 38 % | 14 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 4 Nov | 30.2 °C | 33 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 21 |
| 5 Nov | 27.6 °C | 22 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 6 Nov | 29.5 °C | 19 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 7 Nov | 29.7 °C | 19 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 8 Nov | 29.1 °C | 21 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 9 Nov | 29.0 °C | 18 % | 17 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 10 Nov | 28.0 °C | 28 % | 16 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 11 Nov | 27.4 °C | 29 % | 16 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 12 Nov | 28.0 °C | 24 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 13 Nov | 29.2 °C | 25 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 14 Nov | 27.9 °C | 29 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 15 Nov | 27.7 °C | 29 % | 14 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 16 Nov | 27.5 °C | 27 % | 17 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 17 Nov after | 27.3 °C | 29 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 18 Nov after | 26.3 °C | 31 % | 13 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 19 Nov after | 26.0 °C | 37 % | 13 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 20 Nov after | 25.7 °C | 38 % | 17 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 21 Nov after | 25.5 °C | 37 % | 15 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 22 Nov after | 26.0 °C | 29 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 23 Nov after | 25.0 °C | 37 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 24 Nov after | 24.4 °C | 42 % | 18 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 25 Nov after | 24.6 °C | 36 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 26 Nov after | 23.6 °C | 36 % | 17 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 21 |
Before and after, from space
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Before · 18 Oct 2025
After · 23 Nov 2025
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 11 November 2025 the air beside the fire reached 167 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 112: 7.5 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak167 µg/m³
Days over the guideline17 days
PM10172 µg/m³
Optical depth1.01
WHO 15
30 Oct3 Nov7 Nov11 Nov15 Nov
Good
Fair
Moderate
Poor
Very poor
Extremely poor
Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.
Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)
Detections table · 47Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
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Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Other fires nearby
- 5,595 haJhang18 October 2025 · 25 days · 15 km away
- 4,685 haJhang 22 October 2026 · 24 days · 17 km away
- 1,460 haJhang 21 October 2026 · 21 days · 19 km away
- 4,068 haJhang14 October 2025 · 31 days · 24 km away
- 2,250 haJhang25 October 2025 · 22 days · 25 km away
- 2,210 haJhang 23 October 2026 · 23 days · 29 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the 18-Hazari fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 25 October 2025 to 16 November 2025 (23 days). The perimeter dates it from 1 November 2025 to 12 November 2025.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 1,774 hectares (17.7 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: 18-Hazari (897 ha, 0.5 %); Jhang (883 ha, 0.3 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 32.8 °C, humidity dropped to 18 % and gusts hit 39 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 39, class Very high.
- Where does this data come from?
- From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Pakistan (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.
Where to verify it
A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.
Emergency number: 1122 · 16 · Emergency number and official warnings
Satellite cross-check
History of this page · 6 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
- Last day with fire: 12 November 2025 → 16 November 2025.
- Start date: 1 November 2025 → 25 October 2025.
- Last day with fire: 16 November 2025 → 12 November 2025.
- Start date: 25 October 2025 → 1 November 2025.
- Last day with fire: 12 November 2025 → 16 November 2025.
- Start date: 1 November 2025 → 25 October 2025.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 1 November 2025 to 12 November 2025. 47 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
- Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.
Where this data comes from
The perimeter comes from the Copernicus Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS), which rebuilds it from MODIS and VIIRS heat detections and publishes it under CC BY 4.0. It is not measured on imagery as in Europe, so it is an estimate. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM3 (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ from each country’s official figure.