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Wildfires in Chawngte

Chawngte, India: 20 fires since 2016 burned 125,677 hectares inside its boundaries, 2.0 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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 Very low 31° · 59 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 30° · 66 % · 18 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 30° · 67 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 32° · 65 % · 17 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 69 % · 19 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 70 % · 27 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 66 % · 34 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 64 % · 26 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

125,677
hectares burned
2.0×
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
20
fires
641
km²

How many times has Chawngte burned?

Chawngte has burned 20 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Chawngte fire, April 2026, with 5,385 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 125,677 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 32,285 hectares, 50 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 6× 26
20
fires
9
years with fire
125,677
cumulative ha
32,285
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 Chawngte

  1. 5,385 ha Chawngte fire, April 2026 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 5,385 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 7,024 ha Chawngte fire, 31 March 2026 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 7,024 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 10,975 ha Chawngte fire, 28 March 2026 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 10,975 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 8,339 ha Chawngte fire, 27 March 2026 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 8,339 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 895 ha S' Bungtlang fire, March 2026 1.4% of the municipality · 6,681 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 5,577 ha Chawngte fire, 10 March 2026 where it started 8.7% of the municipality · 8,132 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 5,491 ha Chawngte fire, March 2025 where it started 8.6% of the municipality · 6,252 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 8,547 ha Chawngte fire, April 2024 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 8,547 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 1,302 ha Lungsen fire, 11 March 2024 2.0% of the municipality · 7,638 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 522 ha Chawngte fire, 10 April 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 7,679 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 3,380 ha Chawngte fire, 7 April 2023 where it started 5.3% of the municipality · 5,701 ha in total · 7 days
  12. 4,945 ha Chawngte fire, March 2022 where it started 7.7% of the municipality · 6,548 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 5,554 ha Chawngte fire, March 2021 where it started 8.7% of the municipality · 10,034 ha in total · 9 days
  14. 0 ha S' Bungtlang fire, March 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 5,137 ha in total · 7 days
  15. 9,905 ha Chawngte fire, 28 March 2020 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 9,905 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 5,182 ha Chawngte fire, 26 March 2020 where it started 8.1% of the municipality · 5,411 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 9,636 ha Chawngte fire, 22 March 2019 where it started 15% of the municipality · 10,625 ha in total · 10 days
  18. 6,008 ha Chawngte fire, 20 March 2019 where it started 9.4% of the municipality · 8,164 ha in total · 8 days
  19. 24,940 ha Chawngte fire, 16 March 2019 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 24,940 ha in total · 16 days
  20. 2,070 ha Lungsen fire, March 2016 3.2% of the municipality · 5,054 ha in total · 1 day

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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