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🇮🇳 India: wildfires in October 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, October 2026: 920 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 14 November at 06:16.

Busiest day: 4 October, with 85 ignitions detected. +29% compared with September 2026.

920
archived events
0
still active
0
with verified witnesses
0
with aircraft observed
1656
peak power (MW)
"In October 2026, kanari archived 920 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: 1656 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

012026-10-01: 23022026-10-02: 35032026-10-03: 41042026-10-04: 85052026-10-05: 15062026-10-06: 7072026-10-07: 55082026-10-08: 25092026-10-09: 29102026-10-10: 59112026-10-11: 34122026-10-12: 4132026-10-13: 18142026-10-14: 4152026-10-15: 10162026-10-16: 43172026-10-17: 80182026-10-18: 85192026-10-19: 21202026-10-20: 51212026-10-21: 12222026-10-22: 19232026-10-23: 10242026-10-24: 10252026-10-25: 10262026-10-26: 4272026-10-27: 22282026-10-28: 18292026-10-29: 23302026-10-30: 42312026-10-31: 26

Most powerful fires of the month

PlaceFirst detection (UTC)DetectionsMW
Hawai28 Oct, 09:24281656
Kāti3 Oct, 04:2312619
Kāti5 Oct, 04:237611
Kavalūr1 Oct, 04:222496
Pāvugada2 Oct, 11:236471
Tharād30 Oct, 11:125456
Kāti1 Oct, 04:238451
Ajara4 Oct, 10:433448
Limbdi17 Oct, 10:331422
Lakhtar17 Oct, 10:431407

Cite these figures

kanari (2026). Archived detection events, India, October 2026: 920 records. https://kanari.io — accessed 2026-11-14.

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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