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Wildfires in Kharagpur

Kharagpur, India, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 15,699 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 46% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 1 Very low 29° · 61 % · 24 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 29° · 60 % · 21 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 29° · 56 % · 31 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 29° · 58 % · 22 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Low 28° · 52 % · 26 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Low 28° · 47 % · 27 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Low 28° · 49 % · 19 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Low 27° · 56 % · 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

15,699
hectares burned
46 %
of its area
3
fires
343
km²

How many times has Kharagpur burned?

Kharagpur has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Kharagpur fire, April 2026, with 4,506 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 15,699 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 10,507 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
15,699
cumulative ha
10,507
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 Kharagpur

  1. 4,506 ha Kharagpur fire, April 2026 where it started 13% of the municipality · 7,004 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 9,469 ha Kharagpur fire, March 2022 where it started 28% of the municipality · 31,943 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 1,724 ha Barhat fire, April 2017 5.0% 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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