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Wildfires in Babai

Babai, India: 15 fires since 2019 burned 76,757 hectares inside its boundaries, 1.2 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 18).

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 Moderate 32° · 29 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 32° · 30 % · 18 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 32° · 31 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 32° · 30 % · 27 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 32° · 30 % · 31 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 31° · 31 % · 33 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 32° · 47 % · 39 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 32° · 50 % · 34 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

76,757
hectares burned
1.2×
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
15
fires
622
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Babai

  1. 54 ha Badi fire, April 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 20,769 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 12,616 ha Babai fire, March 2026 where it started 20% of the municipality · 12,807 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 142 ha Hoshangabad fire, November 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 15,941 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 10,096 ha Babai fire, November 2025 where it started 16% of the municipality · 10,153 ha in total · 16 days
  5. 196 ha Itarsi fire, April 2023 0.3% of the municipality · 10,577 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 6,779 ha Babai fire, April 2023 where it started 11% of the municipality · 6,770 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 5,258 ha Babai fire, April 2022 where it started 8.5% of the municipality · 5,266 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 281 ha Itarsi fire, April 2022 0.4% of the municipality · 8,626 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 185 ha Sohagpur fire, April 2021 0.3% of the municipality · 6,802 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 12,887 ha Babai fire, April 2021 where it started 21% of the municipality · 21,633 ha in total · 7 days
  11. 41 ha Hoshangabad fire, March 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 7,067 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 0 ha Badi fire, April 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 8,643 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 21,001 ha Babai fire, April 2020 where it started 34% of the municipality · 59,047 ha in total · 9 days
  14. 177 ha Seoni-Malwa fire, March 2020 0.3% of the municipality · 74,064 ha in total · 17 days
  15. 7,043 ha Babai fire, April 2019 where it started 11% of the municipality · 7,152 ha in total · 7 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).