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Wildfires in Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh, India: 30 fires with a page have entered 40 of its 672 subdistricts since 2016, burning 273,957 hectares inside the region. The largest was T Sundupalle in April 2026, with 23,619 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

Only fires of 5,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

hectares burned: 273,957ha; Since 2016
Of the region: 1.7%; 164,039 km²
fires: 30; Since 2016
municipalities with fire: 40; of 672
Largest fire: 23,619ha; T Sundupalle · April 2026
Inhabitants: —

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast

Mon 26 Very low 31° · 53 % · 27 km/h
Tue 27 Very low 31° · 56 % · 52 km/h
Wed 28 Very low 27° · 78 % · 60 km/h
Thu 29 Very low 31° · 67 % · 27 km/h
Fri 30 Very low 31° · 72 % · 22 km/h
Sat 31 Very low 30° · 83 % · 26 km/h
Sun 1 Very low 30° · 74 % · 32 km/h
Mon 2 Very low 28° · 88 % · 37 km/h
Tue 3 Very low 27° · 91 % · 43 km/h

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Hectares per year

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Which months burn

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Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

Obulavaripalle 38,169 ha · 82 %
Bandi Atmakur 37,090 ha · 52 %
Giddalur 30,881 ha · 35 %
T Sundupalle 20,584 ha · 41 %
Kodur 20,049 ha · 29 %
Pullampeta 19,824 ha · 49 %
Ardhaveedu 11,848 ha · 16 %
Atlur 10,287 ha · 24 %
Srisailam 9,321 ha · 17 %
Kollipara 7,861 ha · 41 %
Dornala 7,679 ha · 8.3 %
Maredumilli 7,295 ha · 6.8 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.

8×Obulavaripalle38,169 ha
8×Giddalur30,881 ha
8×T Sundupalle20,584 ha
6×Bandi Atmakur37,090 ha
6×Kodur20,049 ha
6×Pullampeta19,824 ha
4×Ardhaveedu11,848 ha
3×Yerravaripalem1,582 ha

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Year	fires	hectares burned	Largest of the year
2026	14	133,358	T Sundupalle 23,619 ha
2023	4	32,297	Chitvel 10,632 ha
2022	1	6,950	Kodur 6,950 ha
2021	3	45,344	Obulavaripalle 20,360 ha
2019	4	29,618	Obulavaripalle 10,795 ha
2017	2	13,400	Kodur 7,365 ha
2016	2	12,990	T Sundupalle 6,649 ha

All fires in Andhra Pradesh · 30

Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/DataMeet India community, Election Commission of India (Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 India (CC BY 2.5 IN)). 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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