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Badoda fire, November 2024 Badoda, Sheopur, Karahal

Out · last measured on 18 Nov 2024

The fire started on 1 November 2024 in Badoda, India, and satellites saw it burning for 18 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 11,376 hectares from heat detections, spread across 3 municipalities.

It is the 23th largest in Madhya Pradesh since 2016 (of 60 with a page). The largest in India in 2024, of 7.

We have the GWIS perimeter for this fire, but the VIIRS sensors did not capture it in enough detail: no day-by-day evolution, but the split by municipality is there.

Burnt area
11,376ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
18days
1 Nov 2024 – 18 Nov 2024
Municipalities hit
3
subdistricts
Started on
1 Nov
2024
Danger at start
22
High · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

35°high
22km/h · peak gust
27%lowest humidity

It had gone 17 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

96% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 8,271 ha in 2016, 8,379 ha in 2017, 2,073 ha in 2018, 11,609 ha in 2019, 7,802 ha in 2020, 8,989 ha in 2021, 10,568 ha in 2022, 8,905 ha in 2023. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 10,908 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Badoda where it started
    8,013 ha
    13 %
  2. Sheopur
    2,126 ha
    2.2 %
  3. Karahal
    1,287 ha
    0.6 %

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)
1 Nov 35.1 °C 29 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
2 Nov 35.0 °C 27 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
3 Nov 34.4 °C 28 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
4 Nov 33.9 °C 29 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
5 Nov 33.1 °C 35 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
6 Nov 32.5 °C 40 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
7 Nov 33.1 °C 41 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
8 Nov 33.0 °C 40 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
9 Nov 33.0 °C 40 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
10 Nov 33.3 °C 34 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
11 Nov 33.2 °C 36 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
12 Nov 32.6 °C 32 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
13 Nov 31.8 °C 29 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
14 Nov 31.7 °C 33 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
15 Nov 30.9 °C 32 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
16 Nov 31.1 °C 31 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
17 Nov 30.7 °C 30 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
18 Nov 27.6 °C 39 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
19 Nov after 26.2 °C 36 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
20 Nov after 26.2 °C 34 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
21 Nov after 26.2 °C 34 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
22 Nov after 26.7 °C 34 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
23 Nov after 27.6 °C 37 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
24 Nov after 28.2 °C 32 % 16 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
25 Nov after 28.4 °C 35 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
26 Nov after 28.4 °C 27 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
27 Nov after 28.2 °C 36 % 16 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
28 Nov after 27.6 °C 35 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 26

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 25 Oct 2024
After · 25 Nov 2024

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 18 November 2024 the air beside the fire reached 113 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 84: 5.6 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak113 µg/m³
Days over the guideline23 days
PM10168 µg/m³
Optical depth0.80
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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)

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Badoda fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 1 November 2024 and 18 November 2024: 18 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 11,376 hectares (113.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 3 municipalities: Badoda (8,013 ha, 13 %); Sheopur (2,126 ha, 2.2 %); Karahal (1,287 ha, 0.6 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 35.1 °C, humidity dropped to 27 % and gusts hit 22 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 24, class 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.