Mission control Punjab, Haryana and Delhi

3,85,016 ha of candidate unseen burns, fields Sentinel-2 saw burn with no fire alert between the passes of 2 Oct and 12 Nov, most in Patiala, Sangrur and Ludhiana (46 districts). Audited precision 87% (95% CI 68%–96%, n = 23).

Next fire satellite over Punjab

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Fires, 24 h

Last 6 h
6 to 24 h ago
Dot area: fire power, 2 to 40 MW

Burn scars

Share of each district’s checked hectares that is candidate unseen burn, this season

90% or more
80–90%
70–80%
under 70%

Size: hectares burnt this season; click a district for its fields

Wind

Model wind

Satellites

Satellite now
Ground track
Strip being imaged
Next look at Punjab: the line its scanner sweeps through it, with the time

Season replay

Complete day
Partial day

Who is watching Punjab

A fire satellite looking
No fire satellite looking
FIRMS detections

Candidate unseen burns

Air at receptors

PM2.5, measured

Model (CAMS)

not measured

Other receptor cities, highest fire exposure first
City	PM2.5	Model	Exposure

Fire exposure is a model index: the tonnes of crop residue burning near the paths the model traces back from each city, each weighted by the share of its air that passed as it burned. It measures exposure, not the smoke in the city’s air. How the smoke model is checked

Investigator

Gemini answers from BlindSpot’s live data only. You see each tool it calls, the map follows what it finds, and every figure in the answer is cited and checked against the data before you read it.

Verified questions

Each plays a stored, checked run: no new Gemini call.