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Wildfires in Itarsi

Itarsi, India, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 36,014 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 37% 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 32° · 28 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 33° · 23 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 32° · 25 % · 25 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 32° · 25 % · 31 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 31° · 29 % · 38 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 30° · 34 % · 36 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 30° · 48 % · 34 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 30° · 49 % · 34 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

36,014
hectares burned
37 %
of its area
10
fires
982
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Itarsi

  1. 2,623 ha Seoni-Malwa fire, 22 March 2026 2.7% of the municipality · 86,610 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 6,494 ha Hoshangabad fire, November 2025 6.6% of the municipality · 15,941 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 5,358 ha Itarsi fire, April 2023 where it started 5.4% of the municipality · 10,577 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 1,450 ha Dolariya fire, April 2023 1.5% of the municipality · 15,332 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 7,294 ha Itarsi fire, April 2022 where it started 7.4% of the municipality · 8,626 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 3,637 ha Dolariya fire, 28 March 2022 3.7% of the municipality · 19,673 ha in total · 11 days
  7. 1,808 ha Hoshangabad fire, March 2021 1.8% of the municipality · 7,067 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 2,226 ha Dolariya fire, March 2021 2.3% of the municipality · 23,270 ha in total · 12 days
  9. 4,991 ha Seoni-Malwa fire, March 2020 5.1% of the municipality · 74,064 ha in total · 17 days
  10. 135 ha Dolariya fire, March 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 6,505 ha in total · 12 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).