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🇮🇳 India: wildfires in September 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, September 2026: 715 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 18 October at 06:52.

Busiest day: 15 September, with 78 ignitions detected. +116% compared with August 2026.

715
archived events
0
still active
0
with verified witnesses
0
with aircraft observed
2522
peak power (MW)
"In September 2026, kanari archived 715 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: 2522 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

012026-09-01: 2022026-09-02: 16032026-09-03: 10042026-09-04: 7052026-09-05: 7062026-09-06: 43072026-09-07: 7082026-09-08: 41092026-09-09: 7102026-09-10: 13112026-09-11: 4122026-09-12: 18132026-09-13: 40142026-09-14: 61152026-09-15: 78162026-09-16: 14172026-09-17: 51182026-09-18: 38192026-09-19: 26202026-09-20: 7212026-09-21: 40222026-09-22: 43232026-09-23: 9242026-09-24: 5252026-09-25: 2262026-09-26: 4272026-09-27: 4282026-09-28: 55292026-09-29: 62302026-09-30: 1

Most powerful fires of the month

PlaceFirst detection (UTC)DetectionsMW
Phalodi10 Sept, 12:0222522
Phalodi9 Sept, 12:0211973
Phalodi10 Sept, 12:0241455
Vīrapāndiyanpattanam9 Sept, 11:5421289
Udangudi9 Sept, 11:5421177
Muttayyāpuram2 Sept, 11:5411111
Phalodi10 Sept, 12:021879
Dungarpur23 Sept, 10:537674
Betamcherla28 Sept, 03:523669
Vīsāvadar21 Sept, 10:432661

Cite these figures

kanari (2026). Archived detection events, India, September 2026: 715 records. https://kanari.io — accessed 2026-10-18.

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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