Wildfires in Kargahar
Kargahar, India: 3 fires since 2025 burned 37,063 hectares inside its boundaries, 1.1 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).
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- Fri 23 Low 28° · 56 % · 17 km/h
- Sat 24 Low 28° · 53 % · 13 km/h
- Sun 25 Low 28° · 58 % · 14 km/h
- Mon 26 Low 29° · 56 % · 20 km/h
- Tue 27 Low 28° · 57 % · 14 km/h
- Wed 28 Low 29° · 63 % · 25 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 25° · 84 % · 50 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 26° · 83 % · 62 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
- 37,063
- hectares burned
- 1.1×
- times its area (some ground burned more than once)
- 3
- fires
- 341
- km²
Hectares per year
Fires that entered Kargahar
- 18,977 ha Kargahar fire, April 2026 where it started 56% of the municipality · 39,337 ha in total · 13 days
- 270 ha Kochas fire, December 2025 0.8% of the municipality · 5,879 ha in total · 20 days
- 17,815 ha Kargahar fire, November 2025 where it started 52% of the municipality · 24,684 ha in total · 27 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).