Tuipang fire, 29 March 2025 India
The fire started on 29 March 2025 in Tuipang, India, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 5,106 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 43th largest in Mizoram since 2016 (of 44 with a page). Number 33 in India in 2025, of 33.
- Burnt area
- 5,106ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 3days
- 29 Mar 2025 – 31 Mar 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 0
- subdistricts
- Started on
- 29 Mar
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 182
- in a single hotspot: 323 MW
- Danger at start
- 42
- Very high · FWI index
- Energy released
- 5.3GW
- 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 more than two months without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.0 mm on 8 Apr.
This area had burned before
96% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 3,101 ha in 2016, 3,359 ha in 2017, 1,648 ha in 2018, 4,202 ha in 2019, 840 ha in 2020, 2,002 ha in 2021, 2,200 ha in 2022, 481 ha in 2023, 1,792 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 4,908 ha that had burned before.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Mar | 38.3 °C | 23 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 27 Mar | 36.9 °C | 33 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 28 Mar | 37.9 °C | 23 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 29 Mar | 39.1 °C | 22 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 30 Mar | 39.3 °C | 22 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 31 Mar | 38.7 °C | 25 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 1 Apr after | 38.2 °C | 27 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 2 Apr after | 38.9 °C | 28 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 3 Apr after | 40.0 °C | 30 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 4 Apr after | 37.1 °C | 42 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 5 Apr after | 36.0 °C | 40 % | 27 km/h | 0.5 mm | High 32 |
| 6 Apr after | 39.2 °C | 23 % | 38 km/h | 0.1 mm | Very high 44 |
| 7 Apr after | 38.9 °C | 24 % | 35 km/h | 0.4 mm | Very high 41 |
| 8 Apr after | 35.6 °C | 46 % | 35 km/h | 2.0 mm | Moderate 14 |
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 2 April 2025 the air beside the fire reached 176 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 101: 6.8 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 · 182Every 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 Tuipang fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 29 March 2025 and 31 March 2025: 3 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 5,106 hectares (51.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 40.0 °C, humidity dropped to 22 % and gusts hit 40 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 44, 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
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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.