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Wildfires in Ambassa

Ambassa, India, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 33,455 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 59% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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. Fri 23 Low 32° · 57 % · 18 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 31° · 55 % · 19 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 32° · 56 % · 23 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 33° · 53 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 34° · 55 % · 21 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 70 % · 27 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 66 % · 32 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 63 % · 35 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

33,455
hectares burned
59 %
of its area
5
fires
571
km²

How many times has Ambassa burned?

Ambassa has burned 5 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2020, 2021, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Ambassa fire, 10 April 2026, with 6,229 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 33,455 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 23,746 hectares, 42 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
5
fires
5
years with fire
33,455
cumulative ha
23,746
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 Ambassa

  1. 6,229 ha Ambassa fire, 10 April 2026 where it started 11% of the municipality · 15,588 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 5,793 ha Ambassa fire, March 2025 where it started 10% of the municipality · 5,965 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 7,242 ha Ambassa fire, April 2023 where it started 13% of the municipality · 8,538 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 6,716 ha Ambassa fire, March 2021 where it started 12% of the municipality · 8,641 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 7,476 ha Gandacherra fire, March 2020 13% of the municipality · 24,186 ha in total · 12 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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