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Wildfires in Mawshynrut

Mawshynrut, India, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 25,006 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 16% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 15).

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 8 Moderate 28° · 44 % · 21 km/h
  2. Mon 9 Moderate 29° · 40 % · 19 km/h
  3. Tue 10 Moderate 26° · 55 % · 20 km/h
  4. Wed 11 Very low 24° · 58 % · 27 km/h
  5. Thu 12 Low 24° · 50 % · 19 km/h
  6. Fri 13 Low 24° · 50 % · 25 km/h
  7. Sat 14 Moderate 24° · 50 % · 24 km/h
  8. Sun 15 Moderate 23° · 60 % · 23 km/h
  9. Mon 16 Low 23° · 60 % · 26 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 Mawshynrut: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

25,006
hectares burned
16 %
of its area
6
fires
1,601
km²

How many times has Mawshynrut burned?

Mawshynrut has burned 6 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2020, 2021, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Dambo Rongjeng fire, April 2026, with 4,477 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 25,006 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 12,820 hectares, 8.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
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  10. 2× 25
  11. 1× 26
6
fires
4
years with fire
25,006
cumulative ha
12,820
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 Mawshynrut

  1. 4,477 ha Dambo Rongjeng fire, April 2026 2.8% of the municipality · 6,201 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 4,321 ha Boko fire, March 2025 2.7% of the municipality · 8,415 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 4,122 ha Mawshynrut fire, March 2025 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 5,704 ha in total · 14 days
  4. 4,188 ha Mawshynrut fire, 16 March 2021 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 5,448 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 4,937 ha Mawshynrut fire, 15 March 2021 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 5,798 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 2,961 ha Mawshynrut fire, March 2020 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 5,614 ha in total · 6 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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