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Wildfires in Giddalur

Giddalur, India, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 30,881 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 35% 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. Sun 25 Very low 32° · 44 % · 30 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Low 32° · 35 % · 34 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Moderate 33° · 41 % · 37 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Moderate 33° · 48 % · 45 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Moderate 34° · 43 % · 35 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Moderate 35° · 32 % · 36 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Low 33° · 44 % · 30 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 61 % · 48 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

30,881
hectares burned
35 %
of its area
8
fires
877
km²

How many times has Giddalur burned?

Giddalur has burned 8 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2019, 2021, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Giddalur fire, 26 March 2026, with 6,888 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 30,881 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 21,129 hectares, 24 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 3× 26
8
fires
4
years with fire
30,881
cumulative ha
21,129
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 Giddalur

  1. 6,888 ha Giddalur fire, 26 March 2026 where it started 7.9% of the municipality · 18,912 ha in total · 26 days
  2. 4,548 ha Giddalur fire, 8 March 2026 where it started 5.2% of the municipality · 8,229 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 5,015 ha Giddalur fire, 6 March 2026 where it started 5.7% of the municipality · 6,295 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 1,697 ha Bandi Atmakur fire, February 2023 1.9% of the municipality · 9,133 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 2,972 ha Bandi Atmakur fire, March 2021 3.4% of the municipality · 14,988 ha in total · 15 days
  6. 4,513 ha Giddalur fire, 22 February 2019 where it started 5.2% of the municipality · 5,738 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 2,066 ha Ardhaveedu fire, February 2019 2.4% of the municipality · 7,772 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 3,182 ha Giddalur fire, 20 February 2019 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 5,204 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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