JHANG fire, November 2025 JHANG, 18-HAZARI
The fire started on 5 November 2025 in JHANG, Pakistan, and satellites saw it burning for 9 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,776 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 14th largest in Punjab since 2016 (of 49 with a page). Number 10 in Pakistan in 2025, of 31.
- Burnt area
- 1,776ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 9days
- 5 Nov 2025 – 13 Nov 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- subdistricts
- Started on
- 5 Nov
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 74
- in a single hotspot: 34 MW
- Danger at start
- 25
- High · FWI index
- Energy released
- 227MW
- sum of detected power
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 16 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
28% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 51 ha in 2016, 70 ha in 2018, 199 ha in 2021, 128 ha in 2022, 120 ha in 2023, 180 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 502 ha that had burned before.
What happened to each town
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JHANG where it started1,769 ha reached on 29 Oct0.7 %
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18 ha reached on 4 Nov0.0 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Oct | 33.7 °C | 25 % | 14 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 24 Oct | 33.5 °C | 30 % | 15 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 25 Oct | 32.8 °C | 34 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 26 Oct | 32.7 °C | 33 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 27 Oct | 32.3 °C | 34 % | 18 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 28 Oct | 30.8 °C | 43 % | 17 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 29 Oct | 31.5 °C | 44 % | 16 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 30 Oct | 31.5 °C | 37 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 31 Oct | 32.4 °C | 29 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 1 Nov | 32.2 °C | 36 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 2 Nov | 32.3 °C | 37 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 3 Nov | 30.9 °C | 39 % | 14 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 4 Nov | 29.9 °C | 37 % | 39 km/h | 0.4 mm | High 30 |
| 5 Nov | 27.4 °C | 23 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 6 Nov | 29.4 °C | 19 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 7 Nov | 29.5 °C | 19 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 8 Nov | 28.9 °C | 20 % | 18 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 9 Nov | 28.9 °C | 18 % | 18 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 10 Nov | 27.9 °C | 26 % | 16 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 11 Nov | 27.4 °C | 29 % | 17 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 12 Nov | 27.9 °C | 24 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 13 Nov | 27.8 °C | 25 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 14 Nov after | 27.5 °C | 30 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 15 Nov after | 27.5 °C | 30 % | 14 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 16 Nov after | 27.2 °C | 28 % | 18 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 17 Nov after | 26.8 °C | 31 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 18 Nov after | 26.0 °C | 33 % | 12 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 19 Nov after | 25.6 °C | 38 % | 13 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 20 Nov after | 25.5 °C | 38 % | 17 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 21 Nov after | 25.4 °C | 37 % | 14 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 22 Nov after | 25.8 °C | 31 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 23 Nov after | 24.7 °C | 39 % | 18 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 24 Nov after | 24.1 °C | 44 % | 17 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 25 Nov after | 24.3 °C | 36 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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 · CopernicusOn 10 November 2025 the air beside the fire reached 187 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 123: 8.2 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
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 · 74Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 2,250 haJHANG30 October 2025 · 11 days · 8 km away
- 5,595 haJHANG23 October 2025 · 19 days · 17 km away
- 4,139 haJHANG21 October 2025 · 17 days · 19 km away
- 1,388 haJHANG30 October 2025 · 8 days · 20 km away
- 1,097 haJHANG30 October 2025 · 7 days · 21 km away
- 1,387 haJHANG30 October 2025 · 10 days · 28 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the JHANG fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 5 November 2025 and 13 November 2025: 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 1,776 hectares (17.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: JHANG (1,769 ha, 0.7 %); 18-HAZARI (18 ha, 0.0 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 33.7 °C, humidity dropped to 18 % and gusts hit 39 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 32, 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.