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Wildfires in Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh, India: 64 fires with a page have entered 62 of its 420 subdistricts since 2016, burning 1,041,064 hectares inside the region. The largest was Sheopur in November 2025, with 96,009 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 25).

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
1,041,064ha
Since 2016
Of the region
3.4%
308,679 km²
fires
64
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
62
of 420
Largest fire
96,009ha
Sheopur · 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 High 32° · 24 % · 29 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 32° · 23 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 32° · 23 % · 27 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 32° · 24 % · 29 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 31° · 19 % · 36 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 30° · 26 % · 35 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 30° · 49 % · 47 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 27° · 60 % · 46 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. Seoni-Malwa 159,070 ha · 1.2×
  2. Dolariya 84,221 ha · 2.9×
  3. Babai 76,757 ha · 1.2×
  4. Sheopur 67,655 ha · 71 %
  5. Hoshangabad 48,243 ha · 2.3×
  6. Badoda 46,179 ha · 77 %
  7. Pipariya 45,939 ha · 41 %
  8. Sohagpur 44,094 ha · 28 %
  9. Itarsi 36,014 ha · 37 %
  10. Timarni 34,929 ha · 97 %
  11. Pichhore Or Dabra 28,360 ha · 28 %
  12. Bankhedi 27,776 ha · 43 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

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

Largest recorded fires

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

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
20266152,689 Seoni-Malwa 87,038 ha
202510342,267 Sheopur 96,009 ha
2024222,112 Badoda 11,426 ha
2023332,842 Dolariya 15,406 ha
20227103,807 Pipariya 32,720 ha
202117149,429 Dolariya 23,380 ha
20205155,454 Seoni-Malwa 74,436 ha
2019422,181 Seoni-Malwa 7,618 ha
2018424,801 Dolariya 6,993 ha
2017427,185 Pipariya 7,586 ha
201628,296 Timarni 8,226 ha

All fires in Madhya Pradesh · 64

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).