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Wildfires in Jharkhand
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 33,830 km² of Jharkhand at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 7,670 km², ranking 13th 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 2021, with 15,590 km² detected; the quietest was 2020, with 2,250 km². The 2021–2025 average is 29% 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.
February, March and April together hold 57% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 6 March 2021, with detections in 1,469 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 33,830 km² with at least one detection, 49% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 10,850 | 32% |
| 2 years | 6,260 | 19% |
| 3 to 5 years | 11,210 | 33% |
| 6 to 10 years | 5,160 | 15% |
| 11 years or more | 347 | 1.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 23.75, 86.25 and holds 37% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 4,380 | 13,983 |
| 2013 | 7,960 | 18,801 |
| 2014 | 5,520 | 16,075 |
| 2015 | 7,790 | 18,330 |
| 2016 | 10,470 | 22,677 |
| 2017 | 9,510 | 22,941 |
| 2018 | 8,140 | 22,335 |
| 2019 | 4,650 | 17,444 |
| 2020 | 2,250 | 13,472 |
| 2021 | 15,590 | 30,828 |
| 2022 | 7,200 | 20,764 |
| 2023 | 9,790 | 24,652 |
| 2024 | 6,420 | 19,658 |
| 2025 | 7,670 | 22,080 |
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
- West Bengal101 km
- Khulna, Bangladesh254 km
- Rangpur, Bangladesh300 km
- Bihar302 km
- Rajshahi, Bangladesh309 km
- Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal337 km