Wildfires in Uttarākhand
Uttarākhand, India: 14 fires with a page have entered 20 of its 127 subdistricts since 2016, burning 142,338 hectares inside the region. The largest was Haldwani in April 2016, with 24,638 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).
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
- 142,338ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 2.7%
- 53,633 km²
- fires
- 14
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 20
- of 127
- Largest fire
- 24,638ha
- Haldwani · April 2016
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Low 20° · 33 % · 29 km/h
- Sat 24 Low 19° · 34 % · 26 km/h
- Sun 25 Low 20° · 27 % · 21 km/h
- Mon 26 Low 21° · 23 % · 26 km/h
- Tue 27 Low 21° · 27 % · 29 km/h
- Wed 28 Low 22° · 24 % · 27 km/h
- Thu 29 Low 22° · 26 % · 28 km/h
- Fri 30 Low 21° · 42 % · 29 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Kotdwara 35,608 ha · 33 %
- Haldwani 35,481 ha · 31 %
- Pauri 11,869 ha · 15 %
- Nainital 10,779 ha · 18 %
- Poornagiri 10,150 ha · 20 %
- Hardwar 7,984 ha · 14 %
- Okhalkanda 6,526 ha · 19 %
- Rishikesh 5,285 ha · 12 %
- Yamkeshwar 4,653 ha · 8.5 %
- Dehradun 2,507 ha · 4.2 %
- Ramgarh 2,199 ha · 16 %
- Bhagwanpur 2,006 ha · 3.7 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 5×Kotdwara35,608 ha
- 4×Haldwani35,481 ha
- 4×Poornagiri10,150 ha
- 3×Okhalkanda6,526 ha
- 3×Yamkeshwar4,653 ha
- 2×Pauri11,869 ha
- 2×Nainital10,779 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 24,638 haHaldwaniApril 2016 · 11 days
- 17,781 haHardwarApril 2016 · 12 days
- 13,192 haKotdwara21 April 2016 · 7 days
- 12,139 haHaldwaniMay 2019 · 10 days
- 10,551 haNainital23 April 2016 · 12 days
- 10,145 haRudraprayagApril 2016 · 12 days
- 9,932 haKotdwara21 April 2016 · 9 days
- 8,109 haPoornagiriApril 2019 · 14 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Uttarākhand · 14
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 7,155 haHaldwaniApril 2021 · 9 days
- 12,139 haHaldwaniMay 2019 · 10 days
- 8,109 haPoornagiriApril 2019 · 14 days
- 6,225 haKotdwaraMay 2018 · 9 days
- 5,460 haPauriMay 2018 · 8 days
- 10,551 haNainital23 April 2016 · 12 days
- 5,996 haNainital23 April 2016 · 10 days
- 24,638 haHaldwaniApril 2016 · 11 days
- 5,246 haKotdwara22 April 2016 · 11 days
- 10,145 haRudraprayagApril 2016 · 12 days
- 13,192 haKotdwara21 April 2016 · 7 days
- 9,932 haKotdwara21 April 2016 · 9 days
- 17,781 haHardwarApril 2016 · 12 days
- 5,770 haYamkeshwarApril 2016 · 13 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).