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Wildfires in Rudravaram

Rudravaram, India, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 2,831 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.4% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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 30 Low 31° · 46 % · 31 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 49 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 50 % · 34 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 29° · 62 % · 41 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 59 % · 34 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 51 % · 28 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 28° · 71 % · 28 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 30° · 60 % · 28 km/h
  9. Sat 7 Very low 29° · 65 % · 40 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

2,831
hectares burned
4.4 %
of its area
2
fires
651
km²

How many times has Rudravaram burned?

Rudravaram has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2019 and 2026. The most recent: Giddalur fire, 6 March 2026, with 1,313 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 2,831 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 2,300 hectares, 3.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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2
fires
2
years with fire
2,831
cumulative ha
2,300
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 Rudravaram

  1. 1,313 ha Giddalur fire, 6 March 2026 2.0% of the municipality · 6,295 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 1,518 ha Giddalur fire, 20 February 2019 2.3% of the municipality · 5,204 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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