Magarlod fire, December 2025 Magarlod
The fire started on 3 December 2025 in Magarlod, India, and satellites saw it burning for 23 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 7,536 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
This entry is very probably agricultural burning of stubble or straw that the satellite has merged into a single perimeter, not a wildfire in natural vegetation. We reviewed it by hand: the perimeter comes only from GWIS, lies on densely populated farmland and matches the season when stubble is burnt after the harvest. That is why it is not included in the wildfire rankings.
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- Burnt area
- 7,536ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 23days
- 3 Dec 2025 – 25 Dec 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- subdistricts
- Started on
- 3 Dec
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 239
- in a single hotspot: 40 MW
- Danger at start
- 18
- Moderate · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 82MW
- detected power per day, on average
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 30 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
78% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,831 ha in 2016, 1,913 ha in 2017, 85 ha in 2018, 1,241 ha in 2019, 2,637 ha in 2020, 1,474 ha in 2021, 2,728 ha in 2022, 4,788 ha in 2023, 4,625 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 5,913 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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Magarlod where it started7,578 ha reached on 3 Dec10 %
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.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Dec | 26.8 °C | 43 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 4 Dec | 26.8 °C | 39 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 5 Dec | 26.5 °C | 39 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 6 Dec | 26.3 °C | 31 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 7 Dec | 27.4 °C | 27 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 8 Dec | 27.7 °C | 27 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 9 Dec | 27.7 °C | 27 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 10 Dec | 27.3 °C | 24 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 11 Dec | 27.0 °C | 27 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 12 Dec | 27.3 °C | 30 % | 18 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 13 Dec | 27.0 °C | 33 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 14 Dec | 27.0 °C | 34 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 15 Dec | 26.8 °C | 38 % | 18 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 16 Dec | 26.7 °C | 39 % | 16 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 17 Dec | 28.1 °C | 37 % | 16 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 18 Dec | 27.0 °C | 36 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 19 Dec | 25.4 °C | 39 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 20 Dec | 25.4 °C | 37 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 21 Dec | 25.7 °C | 33 % | 17 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 22 Dec | 25.5 °C | 40 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 23 Dec | 26.1 °C | 39 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 24 Dec | 26.4 °C | 35 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 25 Dec | 26.6 °C | 37 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 26 Dec after | 26.3 °C | 36 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 27 Dec after | 26.3 °C | 37 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 28 Dec after | 26.4 °C | 37 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 29 Dec after | 26.9 °C | 34 % | 17 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 30 Dec after | 27.6 °C | 30 % | 15 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 31 Dec after | 27.7 °C | 32 % | 16 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 1 Jan after | 27.8 °C | 32 % | 16 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 2 Jan after | 27.5 °C | 37 % | 15 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 3 Jan after | 27.7 °C | 43 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 4 Jan after | 26.0 °C | 51 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
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 16 December 2025 the air beside the fire reached 198 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 151: 10 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 · 239Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Magarlod fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 3 December 2025 to 25 December 2025 (23 days). The perimeter dates it from 7 December 2025 to 21 December 2025.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 7,536 hectares (75.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Magarlod (7,578 ha, 10 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 28.1 °C, humidity dropped to 24 % and gusts hit 30 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 25, 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 · Emergency number and official warnings ›
Satellite cross-check
History of this page · 2 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
- Last day with fire: 21 December 2025 → 25 December 2025.
- Start date: 7 December 2025 → 3 December 2025.
Does something look wrong on this page?
This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 7 December 2025 to 21 December 2025. 239 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.
- Probably a vegetation burn: not counted in the totals.
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.