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Badi fire, April 2026 Badi, Budni, Baraily

Out · last detection 10 Apr 2026, 07:49 UTC

The fire started on 1 April 2026 in Badi, India, and satellites saw it burning for 9 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 20,769 hectares from heat detections, spread across 5 municipalities.

It is the 11th largest in Madhya Pradesh since 2016 (of 60 with a page). Number 9 in India in 2026, of 65.

Burnt area
20,769ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
9days
1 Apr 2026 – 9 Apr 2026
Municipalities hit
5
subdistricts
Started on
1 Apr
2026
Heat detections
562
in a single hotspot: 62 MW
Danger at start
46
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
3.6GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

10 Apr 2026
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 1 Apr9 Apr

How it evolved, day by day

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Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

40°high
45km/h · peak gust
18%lowest humidity

It had gone 6 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.2 mm on 20 Apr.

This area had burned before

96% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 8,588 ha in 2016, 8,132 ha in 2017, 6,560 ha in 2018, 6,767 ha in 2019, 11,356 ha in 2020, 8,461 ha in 2021, 7,361 ha in 2022, 3,216 ha in 2023, 2,303 ha in 2024, 5,921 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 19,935 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Badi where it started
    14,024 ha reached on 31 Mar
    28 %
  2. Budni
    6,313 ha reached on 3 Apr
    11 %
  3. Baraily
    465 ha reached on 3 Apr
    0.8 %
  4. Babai
    54 ha reached on 2 Apr
    0.1 %
  5. Sohagpur
    1 ha reached on 6 Apr
    0.0 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

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)
27 Mar 38.2 °C 20 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
28 Mar 36.8 °C 25 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
29 Mar 37.0 °C 32 % 30 km/h 1.5 mm High 27
30 Mar 37.5 °C 28 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
31 Mar 36.8 °C 31 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
1 Apr 37.4 °C 28 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
2 Apr 36.6 °C 33 % 30 km/h 1.3 mm High 29
3 Apr 36.4 °C 31 % 32 km/h 0.3 mm Very high 38
4 Apr 34.8 °C 32 % 32 km/h 2.1 mm Moderate 20
5 Apr 34.4 °C 23 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
6 Apr 36.3 °C 23 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
7 Apr 34.9 °C 26 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
8 Apr 32.9 °C 38 % 45 km/h 1.2 mm High 27
9 Apr 34.0 °C 30 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
10 Apr after 35.2 °C 22 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
11 Apr after 37.1 °C 19 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
12 Apr after 39.6 °C 21 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
13 Apr after 38.3 °C 21 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
14 Apr after 40.0 °C 20 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
15 Apr after 40.1 °C 18 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
16 Apr after 40.5 °C 21 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
17 Apr after 41.3 °C 22 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
18 Apr after 40.6 °C 22 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
19 Apr after 41.9 °C 19 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
20 Apr after 39.9 °C 20 % 37 km/h 1.2 mm Very high 47

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 25 Mar 2026
After · 16 Apr 2026

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 4 April 2026 the air beside the fire reached 47 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 32: 2.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak47 µg/m³
Days over the guideline13 days
PM10114 µg/m³
Optical depth0.66
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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 · 562Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
Date and timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Badi fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 1 April 2026 and 9 April 2026: 9 days between the first and last heat detection of the perimeter.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 20,769 hectares (207.7 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 5 municipalities: Badi (14,024 ha, 28 %); Budni (6,313 ha, 11 %); Baraily (465 ha, 0.8 %); Babai (54 ha, 0.1 %); Sohagpur (1 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 40.1 °C, humidity dropped to 18 % and gusts hit 45 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 48, class Very high.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of India (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: 112

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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.