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Wildfires in Karnātaka

Karnātaka, India: 2 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 227 subdistricts since 2016, burning 13,825 hectares inside the region. The largest was HUNASAGI in November 2025, with 7,249 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
13,825ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.1%
192,697 km²
fires
2
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
3
of 227
Largest fire
7,249ha
HUNASAGI · November 2025
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very low 31° · 57 % · 40 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 30° · 57 % · 28 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 32° · 52 % · 26 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 32° · 31 % · 37 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 32° · 25 % · 37 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 32° · 38 % · 31 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 33° · 34 % · 36 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 32° · 42 % · 34 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

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

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Gundlupet 6,576 ha · 4.8 %
  2. HUNASAGI 5,310 ha · 6.2 %
  3. Shorapur 1,940 ha · 2.0 %

Largest recorded fires

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

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
202517,249 HUNASAGI 7,249 ha
201916,576 Gundlupet 6,576 ha

All fires in Karnātaka · 2

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).