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Wildfires in Telangāna

Telangāna, India: 18 fires with a page have entered 16 of its 583 subdistricts since 2016, burning 140,982 hectares inside the region. The largest was Wajedu in March 2026, with 25,749 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 19).

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
140,982ha
Since 2016
Of the region
1.3%
112,663 km²
fires
18
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
16
of 583
Largest fire
25,749ha
Wajedu · March 2026
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 Moderate 31° · 48 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 30° · 39 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 31° · 34 % · 32 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 30° · 34 % · 35 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 31° · 37 % · 47 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 26° · 48 % · 55 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 69 % · 50 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 55 % · 27 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

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

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Amrabad 38,560 ha · 28 %
  2. Wajedu 24,148 ha · 44 %
  3. Gundala 19,889 ha · 42 %
  4. Kaddam Peddur 18,434 ha · 32 %
  5. Venkatapuram 15,479 ha · 23 %
  6. Gangaram 6,493 ha · 15 %
  7. Cherla 4,030 ha · 8.1 %
  8. Kasipet 3,960 ha · 12 %
  9. Pembi 2,379 ha · 7.4 %
  10. Kollapur 2,224 ha · 5.0 %
  11. Talamadugu 1,546 ha · 5.6 %
  12. Dandepally 1,407 ha · 8.2 %

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
2026874,524 Wajedu 25,749 ha
202517,240 Amrabad 7,240 ha
2022315,850 Gundala 6,894 ha
2021427,955 Gundala 10,425 ha
201716,350 Kaddam Peddur 6,350 ha
201619,063 Gundala 9,063 ha

All fires in Telangāna · 18

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).