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Wildfires in Himachal Pradesh
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 09:22 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 16,270 km² of Himachal Pradesh at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 2,710 km², ranking 24th 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 2024, with 5,590 km² detected; the quietest was 2015, with 1,170 km². The 2021–2025 average is 15% higher 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.
April, May and June together hold 64% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 25 May 2018, with detections in 490 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 16,270 km² with at least one detection, 34% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 6,870 | 42% |
| 2 years | 3,850 | 24% |
| 3 to 5 years | 4,630 | 28% |
| 6 to 10 years | 915 | 5.6% |
| 11 years or more | 12 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 31.25, 76.75 and holds 15% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 4,340 | 5,397 |
| 2013 | 1,300 | 1,635 |
| 2014 | 1,820 | 2,239 |
| 2015 | 1,170 | 1,420 |
| 2016 | 4,710 | 5,885 |
| 2017 | 1,750 | 2,119 |
| 2018 | 4,530 | 5,608 |
| 2019 | 1,500 | 1,808 |
| 2020 | 1,410 | 1,820 |
| 2021 | 2,920 | 3,535 |
| 2022 | 3,760 | 4,563 |
| 2023 | 1,410 | 1,745 |
| 2024 | 5,590 | 6,961 |
| 2025 | 1,680 | 1,988 |
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
- Punjab146 km
- Haryana192 km
- Jammu and Kashmir251 km
- Delhi282 km
- Uttarakhand291 km
- Punjab, Pakistan304 km