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Wildfires in West Bengal
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 11:26 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 23,890 km² of West Bengal at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 4,240 km², ranking 21st 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 2023, with 6,310 km² detected; the quietest was 2012, with 2,290 km². The 2021–2025 average is 73% 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 48% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 6 March 2021, with detections in 334 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 23,890 km² with at least one detection, 33% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 11,170 | 47% |
| 2 years | 4,840 | 20% |
| 3 to 5 years | 5,560 | 23% |
| 6 to 10 years | 2,120 | 8.9% |
| 11 years or more | 203 | 0.9% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 23.75, 87.25 and holds 29% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 2,290 | 4,760 |
| 2013 | 2,920 | 5,919 |
| 2014 | 3,670 | 6,686 |
| 2015 | 3,420 | 6,612 |
| 2016 | 3,790 | 7,409 |
| 2017 | 3,600 | 7,621 |
| 2018 | 4,570 | 9,573 |
| 2019 | 3,020 | 7,661 |
| 2020 | 4,170 | 8,921 |
| 2021 | 5,470 | 10,397 |
| 2022 | 3,730 | 8,497 |
| 2023 | 6,310 | 12,147 |
| 2024 | 6,290 | 11,610 |
| 2025 | 6,080 | 11,884 |
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
- Jharkhand101 km
- Khulna, Bangladesh152 km
- Rajshahi, Bangladesh210 km
- Rangpur, Bangladesh244 km
- Bhojpur, Nepal333 km
- Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal337 km