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Wildfires in Bankhedi

Bankhedi, India, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 27,776 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 43% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 36).

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. Wed 4 High 30° · 37 % · 22 km/h
  2. Thu 5 High 30° · 26 % · 24 km/h
  3. Fri 6 High 30° · 30 % · 22 km/h
  4. Sat 7 High 31° · 30 % · 24 km/h
  5. Sun 8 High 31° · 28 % · 21 km/h
  6. Mon 9 High 31° · 30 % · 25 km/h
  7. Tue 10 High 30° · 34 % · 25 km/h
  8. Wed 11 High 28° · 38 % · 25 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Bankhedi: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

27,776
hectares burned
43 %
of its area
6
fires
645
km²

How many times has Bankhedi burned?

Bankhedi has burned 6 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2025. The most recent: Bankhedi fire, November 2025, with 5,963 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 27,776 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 19,563 hectares, 30 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
6
fires
6
years with fire
27,776
cumulative ha
19,563
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 Bankhedi

  1. 5,963 ha Bankhedi fire, November 2025 where it started 9.2% of the municipality · 6,100 ha in total · 21 days
  2. 7,196 ha Pipariya fire, March 2022 11% of the municipality · 32,531 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 4,880 ha Pipariya fire, April 2021 7.6% of the municipality · 13,129 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 8,676 ha Babai fire, April 2020 13% of the municipality · 59,045 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 264 ha Pipariya fire, April 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 5,676 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 795 ha Pipariya fire, April 2017 1.2% of the municipality · 7,545 ha in total · 16 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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