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Wildfires in Janjgir

Janjgir, India, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2025: 2,682 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 10% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).

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 9 Moderate 28° · 38 % · 17 km/h
  2. Tue 10 Moderate 28° · 42 % · 17 km/h
  3. Wed 11 Moderate 28° · 41 % · 17 km/h
  4. Thu 12 Moderate 27° · 48 % · 18 km/h
  5. Fri 13 Moderate 28° · 51 % · 16 km/h
  6. Sat 14 Moderate 28° · 47 % · 16 km/h
  7. Sun 15 Moderate 29° · 46 % · 16 km/h
  8. Mon 16 Moderate 29° · 49 % · 16 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Janjgir: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

2,682
hectares burned
10 %
of its area
2
fires
264
km²

How many times has Janjgir burned?

Janjgir has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Nawagarh fire, June 2026, with 846 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 2,682 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,922 hectares, 7.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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2
fires
2
years with fire
2,682
cumulative ha
1,922
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 Janjgir

  1. 846 ha Nawagarh fire, June 2026 3.2% of the municipality · 8,447 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 1,835 ha Nawagarh fire, December 2025 7.0% of the municipality · 16,410 ha in total · 38 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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