Wildfires in Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh, India: 9 fires with a page have entered 28 of its 350 subdistricts since 2016, burning 33,675 hectares inside the region. The largest was Itwa in April 2026, with 79,183 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).
Only fires of 5,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.
These figures leave out 16 burns that were probably not wildfires (agricultural, pasture, reed-bed or prescribed). They appear in the lists, marked.
- hectares burned
- 33,675ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.1%
- 241,618 km²
- fires
- 9
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 28
- of 350
- Largest fire
- 79,183ha
- Itwa · April 2026
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 30 Very low 26° · 62 % · 39 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 24° · 74 % · 35 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 28° · 59 % · 16 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 30° · 49 % · 20 km/h
- Tue 3 Low 29° · 45 % · 26 km/h
- Wed 4 Low 29° · 46 % · 21 km/h
- Thu 5 Low 29° · 44 % · 23 km/h
- Fri 6 Low 29° · 52 % · 23 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Itwa 60,121 ha · 1.1×
- Bansi 42,546 ha · 64 %
- Domariyaganj 20,509 ha · 37 %
- Maharajganj 18,671 ha · 18 %
- Manikpur 13,575 ha · 12 %
- Rudrapur 10,327 ha · 24 %
- Mehdawal 8,928 ha · 19 %
- Chandauli 8,371 ha · 18 %
- Khalilabad 6,859 ha · 12 %
- Naugarh 4,471 ha · 7.0 %
- Shohratgarh 4,198 ha · 7.7 %
- Nautanwa 3,473 ha · 5.4 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 6×Itwa60,121 ha
- 6×Domariyaganj20,509 ha
- 4×Bansi42,546 ha
- 4×Manikpur13,575 ha
- 3×Maharajganj18,671 ha
- 2×Rudrapur10,327 ha
- 2×Mehdawal8,928 ha
- 2×Naugarh4,471 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 79,183 haItwaApril 2026 · probable burn · not counted · 25 days
- 19,916 haItwaApril 2019 · probable burn · not counted · 12 days
- 8,826 haKhalilabadApril 2026 · probable burn · not counted · 15 days
- 8,727 haChandauliNovember 2025 · 29 days
- 8,507 haBarhajApril 2026 · probable burn · not counted · 17 days
- 8,260 haItwa10 April 2022 · probable burn · not counted · 9 days
- 8,051 haNaugarhApril 2026 · probable burn · not counted · 21 days of 8,549 ha in total
- 7,900 haRudrapurApril 2026 · probable burn · not counted · 17 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Uttar Pradesh · 25
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 7,900 haRudrapurApril 2026 · probable burn · not counted · 17 days
- 5,525 haBansgaonApril 2026 · 15 days
- 6,092 haMaharajganjApril 2026 · probable burn · not counted · 13 days
- 8,826 haKhalilabadApril 2026 · probable burn · not counted · 15 days
- 8,507 haBarhajApril 2026 · probable burn · not counted · 17 days
- 8,051 haNaugarhApril 2026 · probable burn · not counted · 21 days of 8,549 ha in total
- 79,183 haItwaApril 2026 · probable burn · not counted · 25 days
- 8,727 haChandauliNovember 2025 · 29 days
- 6,546 haItwaApril 2023 · probable burn · not counted · 7 days
- 5,057 haBansiApril 2022 · probable burn · not counted · 6 days
- 6,041 haItwa11 April 2022 · probable burn · not counted · 8 days
- 8,260 haItwa10 April 2022 · probable burn · not counted · 9 days
- 5,217 haItwaApril 2021 · probable burn · not counted · 7 days
- 5,435 haManikpur31 March 2021 · 8 days of 6,807 ha in total
- 3,597 haManikpur30 March 2021 · 9 days of 8,731 ha in total
- 3,150 haMajhgawanMarch 2021 · 13 days of 5,792 ha in total
- 56 haJawaMarch 2021 · 7 days of 6,740 ha in total
- 4,488 haManikpurApril 2019 · 16 days of 6,134 ha in total
- 7,190 haMaharajganjApril 2019 · probable burn · not counted · 10 days
- 5,979 haNautanwaApril 2019 · probable burn · not counted · 8 days
- 19,916 haItwaApril 2019 · probable burn · not counted · 12 days
- 5,747 haBansiApril 2018 · probable burn · not counted · 10 days
- 5,389 haMaharajganjApril 2018 · probable burn · not counted · 10 days
- 1,235 haTulsipurApril 2017 · 7 days of 8,977 ha in total
- 1,464 haBhingaApril 2016 · 12 days of 12,314 ha in total
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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