Wildfires in Bijapur
Bijapur, India, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 13,018 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.5% of its area. 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- Fri 23 Moderate 33° · 39 % · 19 km/h
- Sat 24 Moderate 32° · 35 % · 18 km/h
- Sun 25 Moderate 33° · 29 % · 27 km/h
- Mon 26 High 33° · 26 % · 30 km/h
- Tue 27 Low 30° · 48 % · 38 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 26° · 81 % · 50 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 25° · 91 % · 67 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 30° · 69 % · 28 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
- 13,018
- hectares burned
- 8.5 %
- of its area
- 5
- fires
- 1,534
- km²
Hectares per year
Fires that entered Bijapur
- 4,111 ha Bijapur fire, April 2026 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 5,091 ha in total · 13 days
- 2,231 ha Bhopalpattnam fire, March 2026 1.4% of the municipality · 35,648 ha in total · 27 days
- 2,576 ha Bijapur fire, March 2026 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 5,997 ha in total · 16 days
- 3,989 ha Bhopalpattnam fire, March 2018 2.6% of the municipality · 9,548 ha in total · 4 days
- 112 ha Usur fire, April 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 6,505 ha in total · 14 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).