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Wildfires in Aheri

Aheri, India, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 39,082 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 17% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 24).

Only fires of 5,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 24 Moderate 33° · 28 % · 20 km/h
  2. Sun 25 High 32° · 28 % · 28 km/h
  3. Mon 26 High 32° · 31 % · 36 km/h
  4. Tue 27 High 31° · 43 % · 43 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Low 29° · 66 % · 46 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Moderate 30° · 58 % · 46 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Low 32° · 54 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 74 % · 21 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

39,082
hectares burned
17 %
of its area
7
fires
2,355
km²

How many times has Aheri burned?

Aheri has burned 7 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2017, 2022, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Bhopalpattnam fire, March 2026, with 7 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 39,082 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 30,931 hectares, 13 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 2× 26
7
fires
5
years with fire
39,082
cumulative ha
30,931
distinct ha

Fires larger than 5,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in India →

Fires that entered Aheri

  1. 7 ha Bhopalpattnam fire, March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 35,648 ha in total · 27 days
  2. 5,708 ha Aheri fire, March 2026 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 5,683 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 6,537 ha Aheri fire, March 2025 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 6,507 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 8,052 ha Aheri fire, 18 March 2022 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 8,015 ha in total · 12 days
  5. 11,966 ha Aheri fire, 12 March 2022 where it started 5.1% of the municipality · 11,912 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 2,368 ha Sironcha fire, February 2017 1.0% of the municipality · 5,554 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 4,443 ha Sironcha fire, February 2016 1.9% of the municipality · 6,132 ha in total · 9 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Pathways Data Pvt. Ltd., lgdirectory.gov.in (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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