Rupnagar Punjab

314 candidate unseen burns covering 356 ha in 172 villages, in the 3 days of passes up to 12 Nov 2026. None of its 159 harvested fields ranks in the top tenth for the next burn.

Candidate unseen burns are not confirmed fires: their audit precision 87% (95% CI 68–⁠96%, n = 23), so every count and area of them here is an upper bound.

The top tenth comes from a burn-risk ranking that is modest in its backtest (AUC 0.640, 95% CI 0.595–⁠0.693; 0.5 is chance): a rank says where to look first, not the chance that a field will burn.

Sentinel-2 passes 10–12 Nov 2026

Candidate unseen burns314upper bound

Their area356 haupper bound

Villages with them172newest pass 11 Nov

Harvested fields159straw still lying, 152 ha

In the top tenth0 fieldsin 0 villages

Villages with candidate unseen burns

Largest candidate unseen area first. A village’s map link and case file open its largest burn.

Villages as CSVEnglish हिन्दी ਪੰਜਾਬੀ

Villages of Rupnagar with candidate unseen burns, the 3 days of passes up to 12 Nov 2026
Position	Village	Sub-district	Burns	Hectares	Newest pass	Location	Largest burn
1	Bara Makrauna	Chamkaur Sahib	8 burns	12.2 ha	newest pass 11 Nov	Map: Bara Makrauna in Google Maps, opens a new tab30.85254, 76.44601	Case 2084429
2	Lutheri	Chamkaur Sahib

Watchlist: harvested fields by burn-risk rank (none in the top tenth)

Harvested fields whose straw was still lying on the latest clear pass, grouped by village and ordered by the burn-risk run of 13 Nov, 17:23 IST.

Modest ranking

In this season's backtest, fields in the top tenth of their pass burnt by the next clear pass 1.61 times as often as the average field (95% CI 1.28-2.04): 20.1% against 12.5%. The backtest could order past fields only by burning nearby and last season's fires: the time since harvest and the rain cannot be reconstructed for past passes. Checked over all 387 pass pairs, the ranking is modest (AUC 0.640, 95% CI 0.595-0.693; 0.5 is chance). A rank says where to look first; it is not the chance that a field will burn.

Watchlist of Rupnagar: villages with harvested fields, ordered by the burn-risk ranking
Position	Village	Sub-district	Harvested fields	Hectares	Fields in the top tenth	Best rankof 2,61,123	Location
No field in Rupnagar is in the top tenth: these villages are listed by their best-ranked field only, not high risk
1	Kiri Afghana	Chamkaur Sahib	3 fields	2.1 ha	0not in the top tenth	best rank 46,841	Map

How to read this brief

Candidate unseen burns are Sentinel-2 burn scars that no NASA FIRMS fire detection explains. They are candidates, not confirmed fires: in a hand audit of 23 of them, 87% were real burns (95% CI 68%-96%), so every count and area of them here is an upper bound.
The window is the 3 days of Sentinel-2 passes up to the newest one in the data (2026-11-12), not up to today: Sentinel-2 sees a field only every few days, and its passes are processed once a day.
Each village's point is its largest candidate unseen burn, so its map link leads to the burnt field itself. Village names are the nearest census village within 3 km of a scar; scars with no village that close are listed by sub-district, without a name.
The watchlist orders harvested fields whose straw was still lying on the latest clear pass by the burn-risk run of 2026-11-13 17:23 IST: villages with fields in the run's top tenth first, then the others by their best-ranked field, so a district with no field in the top tenth still gets a list. In this season's backtest, fields in the top tenth of their pass burnt by the next clear pass 1.61 times as often as the average field (95% CI 1.28-2.04): 20.1% against 12.5%. The backtest could order past fields only by burning nearby and last season's fires: the time since harvest and the rain cannot be reconstructed for past passes. Checked over all 387 pass pairs, the ranking is modest (AUC 0.640, 95% CI 0.595-0.693; 0.5 is chance). A rank says where to look first; it is not the chance that a field will burn.
These lists say where to look, not who burnt: a satellite flag needs a visit on the ground before any action, and the brief names villages only, never people.

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Sources and freshness

Brief built: 13 Nov 2026, 20:41 IST
Newest Sentinel-2 pass: 12 Nov 2026, 11:21 IST
Burn-risk run: 13 Nov 2026, 17:23 IST, risk-v3, 2,61,123 fields ranked

Element 84 Earth Search STACfetched 13 Nov, 19:29 IST · fetch 63541earth-search.aws.element84.com/v1/collections/sentinel-2-c1-l2a…
Sentinel-2 L2A pixels (Earth Search COGs on AWS)fetched 13 Nov, 17:22 IST · fetch 62842earth-search.aws.element84.com/v1/collections/sentinel-2-c1-l2a…
ESA WorldCoverfetched 13 Nov, 17:22 IST · fetch 62841planetarycomputer.microsoft.com/api/stac/v1/search
NASA FIRMS active fires (VIIRS 375 m, MODIS 1 km; NRT)fetched 13 Nov, 19:47 IST · fetch 63558blindspot-relay.vercel.app/api/firms
Survey of India states + LGD/Bharatmaps districts (DataMeet / ramSeraph mirror)fetched 9 Nov, 08:47 IST · fetch 44144github.com/ramSeraph/indian_admin_boundaries/releases/download/…

Printed from the BlindSpot field brief for Rupnagar, built 13 Nov 2026, 20:41 IST. Every village of the window, with its map link, is in the CSV: https://blindspot-api-azure.vercel.app/api/brief/Rupnagar/csv?days=3&lang=en

Rupnagar Punjab

314 candidate unseen burns covering 356 ha in 172 villages, in the 3 days of passes up to 12 Nov 2026. None of its 159 harvested fields ranks in the top tenth for the next burn.

Candidate unseen burns are not confirmed fires: their audit precision 87% (95% CI 68–⁠96%, n = 23), so every count and area of them here is an upper bound.

Villages of Rupnagar with candidate unseen burns, the 3 days of passes up to 12 Nov 2026
Position	Village	Sub-district	Burns	Hectares		Newest pass	Location	Largest burn
1	Bara Makrauna	Chamkaur Sahib	8 burns	12.2 ha		newest pass 11 Nov	Map: Bara Makrauna in Google Maps, opens a new tab30.85254, 76.44601	Case 2084429
2	Lutheri	Chamkaur Sahib

Village

Sub-district

Burns

Hectares

Newest pass

Location

Largest burn

Bara Makrauna

Chamkaur Sahib

8 burns

12.2 ha

newest pass 11 Nov

Map30.85254, 76.44601

Case 2084429

Lutheri

Chamkaur Sahib

Watchlist of Rupnagar: villages with harvested fields, ordered by the burn-risk ranking
Position	Village	Sub-district	Harvested fields	Hectares	Fields in the top tenth	Best rankof 2,61,123	Location
No field in Rupnagar is in the top tenth: these villages are listed by their best-ranked field only, not high risk
1	Kiri Afghana	Chamkaur Sahib	3 fields	2.1 ha	0not in the top tenth	best rank 46,841	Map

Village

Sub-district

Harvested fields

Hectares

Fields in the top tenth

Best rankof 2,61,123

Location

No field in Rupnagar is in the top tenth: these villages are listed by their best-ranked field only, not high risk

Kiri Afghana

Chamkaur Sahib

3 fields

2.1 ha

0not in the top tenth

best rank 46,841

Map

How to read this brief

Candidate unseen burns are Sentinel-2 burn scars that no NASA FIRMS fire detection explains. They are candidates, not confirmed fires: in a hand audit of 23 of them, 87% were real burns (95% CI 68%-96%), so every count and area of them here is an upper bound.

The window is the 3 days of Sentinel-2 passes up to the newest one in the data (2026-11-12), not up to today: Sentinel-2 sees a field only every few days, and its passes are processed once a day.

Each village's point is its largest candidate unseen burn, so its map link leads to the burnt field itself. Village names are the nearest census village within 3 km of a scar; scars with no village that close are listed by sub-district, without a name.

The watchlist orders harvested fields whose straw was still lying on the latest clear pass by the burn-risk run of 2026-11-13 17:23 IST: villages with fields in the run's top tenth first, then the others by their best-ranked field, so a district with no field in the top tenth still gets a list. In this season's backtest, fields in the top tenth of their pass burnt by the next clear pass 1.61 times as often as the average field (95% CI 1.28-2.04): 20.1% against 12.5%. The backtest could order past fields only by burning nearby and last season's fires: the time since harvest and the rain cannot be reconstructed for past passes. Checked over all 387 pass pairs, the ranking is modest (AUC 0.640, 95% CI 0.595-0.693; 0.5 is chance). A rank says where to look first; it is not the chance that a field will burn.

These lists say where to look, not who burnt: a satellite flag needs a visit on the ground before any action, and the brief names villages only, never people.