Wildfires in Mahārāshtra
Mahārāshtra, India: 24 fires with a page have entered 11 of its 357 subdistricts since 2016, burning 153,212 hectares inside the region. The largest was Orchha in 3 April 2017, with 28,185 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 26).
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
- 153,212ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.5%
- 310,378 km²
- fires
- 24
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 11
- of 357
- Largest fire
- 28,185ha
- Orchha · 3 April 2017
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sat 24 High 31° · 42 % · 26 km/h
- Sun 25 High 31° · 28 % · 28 km/h
- Mon 26 High 31° · 30 % · 37 km/h
- Tue 27 High 31° · 27 % · 43 km/h
- Wed 28 Moderate 30° · 47 % · 46 km/h
- Thu 29 Moderate 31° · 43 % · 33 km/h
- Fri 30 Moderate 32° · 43 % · 30 km/h
- Sat 31 Moderate 32° · 49 % · 23 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 9×Bhamragad54,484 ha
- 7×Aheri39,082 ha
- 5×Etapalli21,313 ha
- 3×Chikhaldara15,284 ha
- 2×Sironcha4,927 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 28,185 haOrchha3 April 2017 · 27 days of 165,613 ha in total
- 16,048 haOrchhaApril 2026 · 24 days of 127,652 ha in total
- 11,966 haAheri12 March 2022 · 9 days
- 8,052 haAheri18 March 2022 · 12 days
- 7,611 haEtapalliMarch 2018 · 7 days
- 7,179 haEtapalliMarch 2016 · 10 days
- 6,562 haMulcheraMarch 2018 · 8 days
- 6,537 haAheriMarch 2025 · 8 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Mahārāshtra · 24
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 16,048 haOrchhaApril 2026 · 24 days of 127,652 ha in total
- 5,626 haEtapalliMarch 2026 · 10 days
- 3,613 haTalamaduguMarch 2026 · 7 days of 5,130 ha in total
- 7 haBhopalpattnamMarch 2026 · 27 days of 35,648 ha in total
- 5,708 haAheriMarch 2026 · 9 days
- 6,537 haAheriMarch 2025 · 8 days
- 22 haOrchhaMay 2023 · 11 days of 5,915 ha in total
- 8,052 haAheri18 March 2022 · 12 days
- 11,966 haAheri12 March 2022 · 9 days
- 428 haOrchha31 March 2021 · 6 days of 7,405 ha in total
- 1,411 haOrchhaMay 2019 · 7 days of 5,119 ha in total
- 7,611 haEtapalliMarch 2018 · 7 days
- 6,403 haChandrapurMarch 2018 · 5 days
- 6,562 haMulcheraMarch 2018 · 8 days
- 5,353 haChikhaldara17 April 2017 · 4 days
- 6,250 haChikhaldara13 April 2017 · 6 days
- 5,681 haEtapalliApril 2017 · 9 days
- 28,185 haOrchha3 April 2017 · 27 days of 165,613 ha in total
- 5,581 haSironchaFebruary 2017 · 9 days
- 5,224 haChikhaldaraApril 2016 · 8 days
- 3,016 haBhamragadApril 2016 · 4 days of 7,316 ha in total
- 591 haOrchha7 April 2016 · 16 days of 16,447 ha in total
- 7,179 haEtapalliMarch 2016 · 10 days
- 6,158 haSironchaFebruary 2016 · 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/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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