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Wildfires in Puruna Katak

Puruna Katak, India, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 7,089 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 19% 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. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 65 % · 18 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 25° · 85 % · 27 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 27° · 78 % · 17 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 28° · 79 % · 19 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Very low 28° · 73 % · 18 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very low 27° · 67 % · 21 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 26° · 49 % · 23 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 26° · 63 % · 25 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

7,089
hectares burned
19 %
of its area
2
fires
370
km²

How many times has Puruna Katak burned?

Puruna Katak has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Harbhanga fire, March 2026, with 3,419 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
2
fires
2
years with fire
7,089
cumulative ha
3 Mar 2026
most recent

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 Puruna Katak

  1. 3,419 ha Harbhanga fire, March 2026 9.2% of the municipality · 7,838 ha in total · 20 days
  2. 3,671 ha Puruna Katak fire, February 2021 where it started 9.9% of the municipality · 5,037 ha in total · 8 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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