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JHANG fire, 21 October 2025 JHANG, SILLANWALI

Out · last detection 7 Nov 2025, 07:35 UTC

The fire started on 21 October 2025 in JHANG, Pakistan, and satellites saw it burning for 17 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 4,139 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 3th largest in Punjab since 2016 (of 49 with a page). Number 3 in Pakistan in 2025, of 31.

Burnt area
4,139ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
17days
21 Oct 2025 – 6 Nov 2025
Municipalities hit
2
subdistricts
Started on
21 Oct
2025
Heat detections
132
in a single hotspot: 41 MW
Danger at start
17
Moderate · FWI index
Energy released
719MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

7 Nov 2025
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 21 Oct6 Nov

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

34°high
39km/h · peak gust
18%lowest humidity

It had gone 7 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

47% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 135 ha in 2017, 367 ha in 2018, 645 ha in 2019, 460 ha in 2021, 205 ha in 2022, 457 ha in 2023, 1,231 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 1,926 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. JHANG where it started
    3,867 ha reached on 14 Oct
    1.5 %
  2. SILLANWALI
    291 ha reached on 26 Oct
    0.5 %

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)
14 Oct 33.4 °C 30 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
15 Oct 33.2 °C 29 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
16 Oct 33.4 °C 33 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
17 Oct 34.1 °C 33 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
18 Oct 33.8 °C 32 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
19 Oct 33.5 °C 32 % 16 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
20 Oct 33.5 °C 27 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm High 21
21 Oct 32.9 °C 26 % 14 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
22 Oct 33.1 °C 28 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
23 Oct 34.0 °C 26 % 13 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
24 Oct 33.4 °C 31 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
25 Oct 32.7 °C 34 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
26 Oct 32.7 °C 33 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
27 Oct 32.4 °C 34 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
28 Oct 30.7 °C 44 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
29 Oct 31.6 °C 43 % 16 km/h 0.0 mm High 21
30 Oct 31.4 °C 38 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
31 Oct 32.5 °C 30 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
1 Nov 31.9 °C 37 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
2 Nov 32.2 °C 37 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
3 Nov 30.9 °C 38 % 14 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
4 Nov 30.2 °C 33 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
5 Nov 27.6 °C 22 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
6 Nov 29.5 °C 19 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
7 Nov after 29.7 °C 19 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
8 Nov after 29.0 °C 21 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
9 Nov after 29.0 °C 18 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
10 Nov after 28.0 °C 28 % 16 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
11 Nov after 27.4 °C 29 % 16 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
12 Nov after 27.9 °C 24 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
13 Nov after 29.2 °C 25 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
14 Nov after 27.8 °C 29 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
15 Nov after 27.7 °C 29 % 14 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
16 Nov after 27.5 °C 27 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
17 Nov after 27.2 °C 29 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
18 Nov after 26.2 °C 31 % 13 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
19 Nov after 25.9 °C 37 % 13 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
20 Nov after 25.7 °C 38 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
21 Nov after 25.5 °C 37 % 15 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
22 Nov after 25.9 °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

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 14 Oct 2025
After · 13 Nov 2025

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 28 October 2025 the air beside the fire reached 188 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 133: 8.9 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak188 µg/m³
Days over the guideline22 days
PM10193 µg/m³
Optical depth1.05
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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 · 132Every 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 JHANG fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 21 October 2025 and 6 November 2025: 17 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 4,139 hectares (41.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: JHANG (3,867 ha, 1.5 %); SILLANWALI (291 ha, 0.5 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 34.1 °C, humidity dropped to 18 % and gusts hit 39 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 33, class 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

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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.