Sihora fire, 10 November 2025 Sihora
The fire started on 10 November 2025 in Sihora, India, and satellites saw it burning for 24 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 10,719 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 24th largest in Madhya Pradesh since 2016 (of 60 with a page). Number 13 in India in 2025, of 33.
The power measured by the satellite is low (15.8 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.
- Burnt area
- 10,719ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 24days
- 10 Nov 2025 – 3 Dec 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- subdistricts
- Started on
- 10 Nov
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 277
- in a single hotspot: 16 MW
- Danger at start
- 9
- Low · FWI index
- Energy released
- 1.4GW
- 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 9 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
80% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 609 ha in 2016, 1,060 ha in 2017, 1,020 ha in 2018, 1,908 ha in 2019, 2,419 ha in 2020, 3,854 ha in 2021, 6,798 ha in 2022, 3,274 ha in 2023, 5,506 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 8,550 ha that had burned before.
What happened to each town
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Sihora where it started10,770 ha reached on 10 Nov23 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Nov | 27.3 °C | 32 % | 18 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 9 |
| 11 Nov | 27.4 °C | 33 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 10 |
| 12 Nov | 27.6 °C | 30 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 12 |
| 13 Nov | 27.4 °C | 33 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 12 |
| 14 Nov | 27.1 °C | 35 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 13 |
| 15 Nov | 26.3 °C | 29 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 13 |
| 16 Nov | 25.6 °C | 36 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 14 |
| 17 Nov | 25.9 °C | 38 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 14 |
| 18 Nov | 25.7 °C | 37 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 14 |
| 19 Nov | 26.2 °C | 40 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 14 |
| 20 Nov | 26.8 °C | 40 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 14 |
| 21 Nov | 27.6 °C | 45 % | 18 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 13 |
| 22 Nov | 28.0 °C | 40 % | 17 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 14 |
| 23 Nov | 27.9 °C | 41 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 14 |
| 24 Nov | 27.4 °C | 38 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 15 |
| 25 Nov | 26.8 °C | 39 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 15 |
| 26 Nov | 26.3 °C | 39 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 16 |
| 27 Nov | 25.5 °C | 32 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 17 |
| 28 Nov | 25.2 °C | 39 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 16 |
| 29 Nov | 25.4 °C | 40 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 16 |
| 30 Nov | 26.1 °C | 38 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 17 |
| 1 Dec | 26.1 °C | 41 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 16 |
| 2 Dec | 25.9 °C | 37 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 17 |
| 3 Dec | 26.0 °C | 44 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 17 |
| 4 Dec after | 24.9 °C | 41 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 17 |
| 5 Dec after | 24.5 °C | 34 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 17 |
| 6 Dec after | 24.3 °C | 34 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 17 |
| 7 Dec after | 25.1 °C | 32 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 17 |
| 8 Dec after | 27.2 °C | 27 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 9 Dec after | 27.1 °C | 27 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 10 Dec after | 26.5 °C | 27 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 11 Dec after | 26.7 °C | 29 % | 18 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 12 Dec after | 26.1 °C | 32 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 13 Dec after | 25.8 °C | 36 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 14 Dec after | 25.0 °C | 39 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 15 Dec after | 25.2 °C | 39 % | 18 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 16 Dec after | 25.3 °C | 35 % | 18 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 17 Dec after | 26.5 °C | 37 % | 20 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 24 November 2025 the air beside the fire reached 122 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 99: 6.6 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 · 277Every 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 Sihora fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 10 November 2025 and 3 December 2025: 24 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 10,719 hectares (107.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Sihora (10,770 ha, 23 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 28.0 °C, humidity dropped to 29 % and gusts hit 29 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 17, class Moderate.
- 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.