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Wildfires in Saikheda

Saikheda, India, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 1,046 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.3% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 18).

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 Moderate 31° · 32 % · 19 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 30° · 37 % · 13 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 31° · 36 % · 13 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 32° · 29 % · 24 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 30° · 33 % · 27 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 30° · 41 % · 36 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 29° · 60 % · 44 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 71 % · 39 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

1,046
hectares burned
2.3 %
of its area
3
fires
449
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Saikheda

  1. 124 ha Bankhedi fire, November 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 6,100 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 275 ha Pipariya fire, April 2021 0.6% of the municipality · 13,129 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 647 ha Babai fire, April 2020 1.4% of the municipality · 59,047 ha in total · 9 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).