Burned area
satellite only5,472ha
Perimeter published by GWIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- 10 Mar 2022 – 18 Mar 2022
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IN · India · –
Kaddam Peddur fire, March 2022 Kaddam Peddur, Utnoor
Out · last measured on 18 Mar 2022
The fire started on 10 March 2022 in Kaddam Peddur, India, and satellites saw it burning for 9 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 5,472 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 10th largest in Telangāna since 2016 (of 10 with a page). Number 22 in India in 2022, of 25.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only9days
10 Mar 2022 to 18 Mar 2022: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 10 Mar 2022 – 18 Mar 2022
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Start
satellite only10 Mar 2022
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 10 Mar 2022
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Danger at the start
model30.5FWI · high
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 54.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 10 Mar 2022, 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
model40.6°C · 17% RH
High of 40.6 °C and minimum humidity of 17% on 17 March 2022; gusts of 27 km/h on 16 March 2022.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 10 Mar 2022 – 18 Mar 2022
- 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≈ 70people
Estimated residents inside the perimeter and 0.28 ha of built-up area (100 m grid, epoch 2020).
- 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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· reconstructed weatherWeather and FWI computed from the ERA5 reanalysis
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· reconstructed GHSLPopulation and built-up area computed
What was saved on 24 October 2026
Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
- Area
- 5,472 ha
- Dates
- 10 Mar 2022 – 18 Mar 2022
- Name
- Kaddam Peddur
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/kaddam-peddur-2022-03?v=2026-10-24A 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 kaddam-peddur-2022-03.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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-03-10 | 0 | 0 | 35.1 | 23.3 | 30 | 12.1 | 21.6 | 0 | 30.5 | alto | 1 |
| 2022-03-11 | 0 | 0 | 35.3 | 22.5 | 29 | 7.9 | 14.8 | 0 | 27.7 | alto | 1 |
| 2022-03-12 | 0 | 0 | 34.9 | 23 | 29 | 11.2 | 23 | 0 | 33.4 | alto | 1 |
| 2022-03-13 | 0 | 0 | 36.3 | 21.5 | 27 | 11 | 24.8 | 0 | 34.9 | alto | 1 |
| 2022-03-14 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 19.2 | 20 | 8.9 | 17.3 | 0 | 38.7 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2022-03-15 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 20.9 | 20 | 11.5 | 20.5 | 0 | 43.9 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2022-03-16 | 0 | 0 | 39.5 | 21.9 | 21 | 11.4 | 26.6 | 0 | 48.7 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2022-03-17 | 0 | 0 | 40.6 | 21.8 | 17 | 10.3 | 23.8 | 0 | 47.2 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2022-03-18 | 0 | 0 | 38.7 | 22.4 | 25 | 10.1 | 16.2 | 0 | 38.1 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2022-03-19 | 0 | 0 | 36.7 | 24 | 32 | 14.6 | 31 | 0 | 38.7 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2022-03-20 | 0 | 0 | 37.7 | 24.3 | 29 | 11.6 | 25.9 | 0 | 31.4 | alto | 0 |
| 2022-03-21 | 0 | 0 | 37.8 | 24.2 | 30 | 8.6 | 20.9 | 0 | 29.6 | alto | 0 |
| 2022-03-22 | 0 | 0 | 38.5 | 24.3 | 28 | 9.9 | 24.1 | 0 | 30.2 | alto | 0 |
| 2022-03-23 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 24.3 | 24 | 8.8 | 20.9 | 0 | 37.4 | alto | 0 |
| 2022-03-24 | 0 | 0 | 36.7 | 24.9 | 34 | 10.8 | 28.8 | 0 | 38.2 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2022-03-25 | 0 | 0 | 37.1 | 24.5 | 38 | 12.1 | 28.4 | 0 | 38.6 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2022-03-26 | 0 | 0 | 36.9 | 26 | 38 | 10.2 | 27.4 | 0 | 35.7 | alto | 0 |
| 2022-03-27 | 0 | 0 | 39.6 | 26.8 | 24 | 8.8 | 18.4 | 0 | 31.9 | alto | 0 |
| 2022-03-28 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 23.6 | 22 | 11.1 | 18.7 | 0 | 35.6 | alto | 0 |
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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
- 5,472ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 9days
- 10 Mar 2022 – 18 Mar 2022
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- subdistricts
- Started on
- 10 Mar
- 2022
- Danger at start
- 30
- High · FWI index
Where it burned
The weather it burned in
41°high
27km/h · peak gust
17%lowest humidity
It had gone 54 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
85% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 834 ha in 2016, 2,671 ha in 2017, 1,105 ha in 2018, 1,925 ha in 2019, 1,410 ha in 2020, 3,042 ha in 2021. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 4,675 ha that had burned before.
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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Kaddam Peddur where it started4,413 ha7.6 %
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1,089 ha2.8 %
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 2020Built-up area0.28 ha
Residents≈ 70
Inside the perimeter there were about 0.28 hectares of built-up land and about 70 residents (GHSL 2020, 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.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Mar | 35.1 °C | 30 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 11 Mar | 35.3 °C | 29 % | 15 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 12 Mar | 34.9 °C | 29 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 13 Mar | 36.3 °C | 27 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 14 Mar | 37.0 °C | 20 % | 17 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 15 Mar | 39.0 °C | 20 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 16 Mar | 39.5 °C | 21 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
| 17 Mar | 40.6 °C | 17 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 18 Mar | 38.7 °C | 25 % | 16 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 38 |
| 19 Mar after | 36.7 °C | 32 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 20 Mar after | 37.7 °C | 29 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 21 Mar after | 37.8 °C | 30 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 22 Mar after | 38.5 °C | 28 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 23 Mar after | 39.0 °C | 24 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 24 Mar after | 36.7 °C | 34 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 38 |
| 25 Mar after | 37.1 °C | 38 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 26 Mar after | 36.9 °C | 38 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 27 Mar after | 39.6 °C | 24 % | 18 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 28 Mar after | 40.0 °C | 22 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 30.5, a minimum humidity of 30% and 54 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 5.
FWI at the start
30.5
Minimum humidity
30 %
Days without rain
54
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Kaddam Peddur fire, March 2022
5,472 ha
9 days
FWI 30.5
Min. humidity 30 %
Kaddam Peddur fire, February 2017
6,316 ha
17 days
FWI 32.9
Min. humidity 32 %
7 km away, in 2017
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Sironcha fire, February 2017
5,554 ha
14 days
FWI 29.0
Min. humidity 25 %
144 km away, in 2017
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.5 mm on 7 Mar.
Bhopalpattnam fire, March 2018
9,548 ha
4 days
FWI 41.6
Min. humidity 30 %
188 km away, in 2018
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.4 mm on 16 Mar.
Gundala fire, February 2021
10,369 ha
9 days
FWI 34.9
Min. humidity 23 %
221 km away, in 2021
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Kasipet fire, March 2021
5,887 ha
6 days
FWI 38.0
Min. humidity 21 %
55 km away, in 2021
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
What happened to them
Fires in the area that started in similar weather: 5. With fewer than 15 we give no figures: they would be more noise than signal.
This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it
How it ended
—first rain
—no rain in ten days
27km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 18 Mar, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain.
Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
How a twin is chosen
- Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
- Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
- Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
- Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
- They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.
Before and after, from space
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Before · 3 Mar 2022
After · 25 Mar 2022
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Kaddam Peddur fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 10 March 2022 and 18 March 2022: 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 5,472 hectares (54.7 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Kaddam Peddur (4,413 ha, 7.6 %); Utnoor (1,089 ha, 2.8 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 40.6 °C, humidity dropped to 17 % and gusts hit 27 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 49, 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 · Emergency number and official warnings
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History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
No changes since 24 October 2026.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
- Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. No 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 2020, 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.