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Wildfires in Assam
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC
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Fire history, 2012–2025
Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 30,750 km² of Assam at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 8,010 km², ranking 11th of 35 regions of India.
Year by year
Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.
The busiest year was 2014, with 12,600 km² detected; the quietest was 2018, with 5,170 km². The 2021–2025 average is 22% lower than the 2012–2016 average.
Through the year
Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.
February, March and April together hold 79% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 31 March 2014, with detections in 1,384 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 30,750 km² with at least one detection, 51% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 9,970 | 32% |
| 2 years | 5,070 | 16% |
| 3 to 5 years | 8,260 | 27% |
| 6 to 10 years | 6,490 | 21% |
| 11 years or more | 953 | 3.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 25.25, 93.25 and holds 9.3% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 10,420 | 14,181 |
| 2013 | 8,350 | 11,322 |
| 2014 | 12,600 | 18,421 |
| 2015 | 9,320 | 13,251 |
| 2016 | 7,950 | 10,815 |
| 2017 | 6,830 | 9,068 |
| 2018 | 5,170 | 6,513 |
| 2019 | 6,010 | 7,258 |
| 2020 | 7,400 | 9,647 |
| 2021 | 8,380 | 10,774 |
| 2022 | 7,140 | 8,937 |
| 2023 | 7,370 | 9,729 |
| 2024 | 7,060 | 8,999 |
| 2025 | 8,120 | 10,082 |
Other regions of India
- Madhya Pradesh38,920 km² in an average year
- Maharashtra31,990 km² in an average year
- Punjab30,530 km² in an average year
- Chhattisgarh28,500 km² in an average year
- Odisha27,930 km² in an average year
- Telangana19,840 km² in an average year
- How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.
Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.
Nearby regions
- Nagaland114 km
- Manipur122 km
- Meghalaya160 km
- Samdrup Jongkhar, Bhutan224 km
- Tripura225 km
- Sylhet, Bangladesh230 km