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🇮🇳 India: wildfires in August 2026

Unit: archived detection events, grouped by first-detection day and a roughly 11 km cell. One physical fire can span multiple records; hotspots can also be agricultural, industrial or urban. These counts are not a census of confirmed wildfires. The archive starts on August 3, 2026; the current month is incomplete.

India, August 2026: 331 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 6 October at 07:57.

Busiest day: 28 August, with 50 ignitions detected.

331
archived events
0
still active
0
with verified witnesses
0
with aircraft observed
387
peak power (MW)
"In August 2026, kanari archived 331 detection events in India, with 0 still active at the last update. This is not a count of distinct confirmed physical wildfires. Peak observed fire radiative power: 387 MW."
Source: kanari.io, NASA FIRMS, GOES and Meteosat MTG satellites plus AI-verified witness reports. Freely citable (CC BY 4.0).

Fire ignitions per day

032026-08-03: 7052026-08-05: 5062026-08-06: 7072026-08-07: 27082026-08-08: 17092026-08-09: 9102026-08-10: 9112026-08-11: 49122026-08-12: 19132026-08-13: 8142026-08-14: 5162026-08-16: 5172026-08-17: 4182026-08-18: 4192026-08-19: 2202026-08-20: 31212026-08-21: 6222026-08-22: 2232026-08-23: 12242026-08-24: 4252026-08-25: 11262026-08-26: 3272026-08-27: 4282026-08-28: 50292026-08-29: 23302026-08-30: 2312026-08-31: 6

Most powerful fires of the month

PlaceFirst detection (UTC)DetectionsMW
Kathua28 Aug, 10:522387
R.S. Pora29 Aug, 10:422334
Kuchera23 Aug, 10:426306
R.S. Pora29 Aug, 10:421291
Sinnar28 Aug, 10:332267
Igatpuri28 Aug, 10:436259
Sanaur9 Aug, 09:421238
Hubballi11 Aug, 10:3311233
Suthālia12 Aug, 10:421230
Sindgi28 Aug, 10:233230

Cite these figures

kanari (2026). Archived detection events, India, August 2026: 331 records. https://kanari.io — accessed 2026-10-06.

Methodology: only significant fires are archived (corroborated by witnesses, or above detection and power thresholds); totals are not comparable to exhaustive official tallies. Full methodology and licence.

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