Walk through Maharashtra’s forests today and you might smell it before you see it—the acrid scent of wildfire. These aren’t just occasional burns but a troubling escalation of what forest ecologists call “pyrogenic events.” According to the Forest Survey of India’s satellite mapping, Maharashtra has experienced  1,245 large forest fires between January and early April 2025—nearly thrice as many incidents as the 515  that occurred last year during the same timeframe. This puts Maharashtra second nationally for major forest conflagrations, with only Madhya Pradesh experiencing more at 1,743.  The temporal pattern reveals the crisis: February saw 97 major fires, and … Continue reading Maharashtra Forest Fires Triple in 2025, Over 1,000 in March Alone, Second Only to Madhya Pradesh