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Wildfires in Dharhara

Dharhara, India, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 14,036 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 48% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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. Mon 26 Low 30° · 42 % · 22 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Low 31° · 47 % · 15 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Low 31° · 46 % · 14 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 25° · 88 % · 27 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 89 % · 52 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 80 % · 33 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 63 % · 26 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 63 % · 22 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

14,036
hectares burned
48 %
of its area
3
fires
291
km²

How many times has Dharhara burned?

Dharhara has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Kharagpur fire, April 2026, with 2,367 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 14,036 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 9,048 hectares, 31 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
3
fires
3
years with fire
14,036
cumulative ha
9,048
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 Dharhara

  1. 2,367 ha Kharagpur fire, April 2026 8.1% of the municipality · 7,004 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 7,028 ha Kharagpur fire, March 2022 24% of the municipality · 31,943 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 4,641 ha Barhat fire, April 2017 16% of the municipality · 20,090 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).

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