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Wildfires in Bhamragad

Bhamragad, India, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 54,484 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 39% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 22).

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 33° · 36 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 33° · 28 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 32° · 27 % · 27 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 32° · 28 % · 34 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 32° · 35 % · 44 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 56 % · 51 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 88 % · 53 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 70 % · 31 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

54,484
hectares burned
39 %
of its area
9
fires
1,405
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Bhamragad

  1. 16,048 ha Orchha fire, April 2026 11% of the municipality · 127,652 ha in total · 24 days
  2. 22 ha Orchha fire, May 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 5,915 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 427 ha Orchha fire, 31 March 2021 0.3% of the municipality · 7,405 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 1,411 ha Orchha fire, May 2019 1.0% of the municipality · 5,119 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 3,691 ha Etapalli fire, March 2018 2.6% of the municipality · 7,573 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 1,093 ha Etapalli fire, April 2017 0.8% of the municipality · 5,653 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 28,185 ha Orchha fire, 3 April 2017 20% of the municipality · 165,613 ha in total · 27 days
  8. 591 ha Orchha fire, 7 April 2016 0.4% of the municipality · 16,447 ha in total · 16 days
  9. 3,016 ha Bhamragad fire, April 2016 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 7,316 ha in total · 4 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).