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Wildfires in Kodur

Kodur, India, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 20,049 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 29% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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 Very low 28° · 77 % · 17 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 30° · 57 % · 20 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 29° · 65 % · 24 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 57 % · 30 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 31° · 35 % · 35 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 32° · 45 % · 48 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 34° · 36 % · 31 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 33° · 38 % · 30 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

20,049
hectares burned
29 %
of its area
6
fires
683
km²

How many times has Kodur burned?

Kodur has burned 6 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: T Sundupalle fire, April 2026, with 39 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 20,049 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 16,580 hectares, 24 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
6
fires
6
years with fire
20,049
cumulative ha
16,580
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 Kodur

  1. 39 ha T Sundupalle fire, April 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 23,484 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 1,142 ha Chitvel fire, April 2023 1.7% of the municipality · 10,570 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 4,627 ha Kodur fire, March 2022 where it started 6.8% of the municipality · 6,910 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 3,276 ha Obulavaripalle fire, March 2019 4.8% of the municipality · 10,735 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 6,090 ha Kodur fire, April 2017 where it started 8.9% of the municipality · 7,324 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 4,874 ha Kodur fire, April 2016 where it started 7.1% of the municipality · 6,305 ha in total · 10 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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