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Wildfires in Seoni-Malwa

Seoni-Malwa, India: 14 fires since 2016 burned 159,070 hectares inside its boundaries, 1.2 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. Fire danger today: low (FWI 11).

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. Wed 28 Moderate 29° · 51 % · 36 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Low 28° · 60 % · 38 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Low 28° · 61 % · 17 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Moderate 30° · 54 % · 20 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Moderate 30° · 52 % · 27 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Moderate 31° · 42 % · 32 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Moderate 31° · 48 % · 30 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Moderate 31° · 43 % · 31 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

159,070
hectares burned
1.2×
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
14
fires
1,285
km²

How many times has Seoni-Malwa burned?

Seoni-Malwa has burned 14 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Seoni-Malwa fire, March 2026, with 161 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 159,070 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 64,487 hectares, 50 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
14
fires
8
years with fire
159,070
cumulative ha
64,487
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 Seoni-Malwa

  1. 161 ha Seoni-Malwa fire, March 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 16,141 ha in total · 17 days
  2. 47,192 ha Nasrullaganj fire, March 2026 37% of the municipality · 86,610 ha in total · 22 days
  3. 6,366 ha Dolariya fire, 28 March 2022 5.0% of the municipality · 19,673 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 19,718 ha Seoni-Malwa fire, March 2022 where it started 15% of the municipality · 19,623 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 54 ha Timarni fire, March 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 7,178 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 2,308 ha Dolariya fire, March 2021 1.8% of the municipality · 23,270 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 11,547 ha Seoni-Malwa fire, March 2021 where it started 9.0% of the municipality · 11,489 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 209 ha Timarni fire, March 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 7,185 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 45,167 ha Seoni-Malwa fire, March 2020 where it started 35% of the municipality · 74,064 ha in total · 17 days
  10. 7,618 ha Seoni-Malwa fire, March 2019 where it started 5.9% of the municipality · 7,576 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 6,201 ha Seoni-Malwa fire, 26 March 2018 where it started 4.8% of the municipality · 6,170 ha in total · 9 days
  12. 5,168 ha Seoni-Malwa fire, 25 March 2018 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 5,140 ha in total · 11 days
  13. 7,352 ha Seoni-Malwa fire, March 2017 where it started 5.7% of the municipality · 7,319 ha in total · 14 days
  14. 9 ha Timarni fire, March 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 8,188 ha in total · 16 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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