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Wildfires in Meghalaya
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 17,580 km² of Meghalaya at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 5,330 km², ranking 20th 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 6,610 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 3,970 km². The 2021–2025 average is 14% 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 92% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 31 March 2014, with detections in 1,035 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 17,580 km² with at least one detection, 62% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 3,790 | 22% |
| 2 years | 2,860 | 16% |
| 3 to 5 years | 5,880 | 33% |
| 6 to 10 years | 4,100 | 23% |
| 11 years or more | 951 | 5.4% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 25.75, 91.75 and holds 18% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 6,220 | 7,346 |
| 2013 | 5,720 | 6,909 |
| 2014 | 6,610 | 8,329 |
| 2015 | 5,680 | 6,996 |
| 2016 | 5,240 | 6,284 |
| 2017 | 4,930 | 5,675 |
| 2018 | 5,030 | 5,784 |
| 2019 | 4,750 | 5,495 |
| 2020 | 5,180 | 6,071 |
| 2021 | 5,940 | 7,376 |
| 2022 | 4,580 | 5,496 |
| 2023 | 5,020 | 6,031 |
| 2024 | 3,970 | 4,547 |
| 2025 | 5,780 | 7,108 |
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
- Samdrup Jongkhar, Bhutan111 km
- Geylegphug, Bhutan149 km
- Assam160 km
- Trashigang, Bhutan166 km
- Sylhet, Bangladesh174 km
- Tripura222 km