Wildfires in Punjab
Punjab, India: 33 fires with a page have entered 34 of its 91 subdistricts since 2016, burning 487,202 hectares inside the region. The largest was Barnala in 18 October 2016, with 108,828 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 17).
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
- 487,202ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 9.7%
- 50,421 km²
- fires
- 33
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 34
- of 91
- Largest fire
- 108,828ha
- Barnala · 18 October 2016
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Wed 28 Moderate 30° · 31 % · 20 km/h
- Thu 29 Moderate 29° · 34 % · 17 km/h
- Fri 30 Low 28° · 44 % · 18 km/h
- Sat 31 Moderate 29° · 37 % · 26 km/h
- Sun 1 Moderate 29° · 32 % · 22 km/h
- Mon 2 Moderate 29° · 31 % · 23 km/h
- Tue 3 Moderate 30° · 31 % · 21 km/h
- Wed 4 Moderate 30° · 40 % · 21 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Barnala 76,322 ha · 94 %
- Mansa 41,765 ha · 47 %
- Tapa 31,832 ha · 52 %
- Nihal Singhwala 30,457 ha · 68 %
- Bagha Purana 28,883 ha · 48 %
- Jagraon 27,494 ha · 34 %
- Sangrur 25,189 ha · 55 %
- Sunam 24,202 ha · 47 %
- Moga 21,817 ha · 34 %
- Dhuri 19,485 ha · 33 %
- Raikot 17,353 ha · 38 %
- Budhlada 16,065 ha · 22 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 9×Tapa31,832 ha
- 9×Sunam24,202 ha
- 8×Barnala76,322 ha
- 8×Mansa41,765 ha
- 7×Dhuri19,485 ha
- 5×Nihal Singhwala30,457 ha
- 5×Bagha Purana28,883 ha
- 5×Jagraon27,494 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 108,828 haBarnala18 October 2016 · 36 days
- 48,880 haBagha PuranaOctober 2016 · 34 days
- 39,219 haBarnala21 October 2016 · 32 days
- 31,735 haSangrurOctober 2021 · 23 days
- 20,627 haBarnalaOctober 2020 · 21 days
- 16,849 haDirbaNovember 2021 · 14 days
- 12,592 haMansa24 October 2016 · 31 days
- 12,484 haMansa24 October 2016 · 25 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 15 | 158,180 | Sangrur 31,735 ha |
| 2020 | 5 | 53,066 | Barnala 20,627 ha |
| 2018 | 1 | 5,184 | Gidderbaha 5,184 ha |
| 2017 | 2 | 10,504 | Fazilka 5,279 ha |
| 2016 | 10 | 260,268 | Barnala 108,828 ha |
All fires in Punjab · 33
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 16,849 haDirbaNovember 2021 · 14 days
- 7,647 haFazilkaNovember 2021 · 16 days
- 5,908 haBathindaNovember 2021 · 15 days
- 8,207 haMalerkotlaNovember 2021 · 14 days
- 7,895 haNihal Singhwala3 November 2021 · 14 days
- 6,444 haNihal Singhwala3 November 2021 · 12 days
- 7,166 haMogaNovember 2021 · 14 days
- 6,761 haBagha PuranaNovember 2021 · 14 days
- 7,372 haBudhladaNovember 2021 · 14 days
- 11,036 haLehraNovember 2021 · 19 days
- 10,545 haMansaOctober 2021 · 17 days
- 9,434 haGidderbahaOctober 2021 · 19 days
- 11,022 haRaikotOctober 2021 · 16 days
- 10,158 haBarnalaOctober 2021 · 18 days
- 31,735 haSangrurOctober 2021 · 23 days
- 7,269 haMansa31 October 2020 · 15 days
- 7,198 haBudhladaOctober 2020 · 16 days
- 7,073 haNihal SinghwalaOctober 2020 · 14 days
- 10,900 haMansa27 October 2020 · 19 days
- 20,627 haBarnalaOctober 2020 · 21 days
- 5,184 haGidderbahaOctober 2018 · 15 days
- 5,279 haFazilkaNovember 2017 · 12 days
- 5,225 haBhawanigarhOctober 2017 · 23 days
- 8,567 haMogaNovember 2016 · 14 days
- 12,484 haMansa24 October 2016 · 25 days
- 12,592 haMansa24 October 2016 · 31 days
- 9,624 haDhuriOctober 2016 · 26 days
- 5,241 haDirba22 October 2016 · 24 days
- 7,832 haDirba21 October 2016 · 23 days
- 39,219 haBarnala21 October 2016 · 32 days
- 7,001 haLehraOctober 2016 · 28 days
- 48,880 haBagha PuranaOctober 2016 · 34 days
- 108,828 haBarnala18 October 2016 · 36 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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