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Wildfires in Assam

Assam, India: 23 fires with a page have entered 7 of its 153 subdistricts since 2016, burning 105,478 hectares inside the region. The largest was Haflong in 1 April 2026, with 11,791 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

Only fires of 5,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

hectares burned
105,478ha
Since 2016
Of the region
1.3%
79,022 km²
fires
23
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
7
of 153
Largest fire
11,791ha
Haflong · 1 April 2026
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Low 31° · 54 % · 15 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 31° · 58 % · 16 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 31° · 54 % · 15 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 31° · 49 % · 16 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 32° · 50 % · 17 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 33° · 50 % · 28 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 67 % · 27 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 66 % · 23 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Haflong 57,117 ha · 12 %
  2. Donka 34,348 ha · 11 %
  3. Silonijan 5,045 ha · 3.1 %
  4. Boko 4,281 ha · 8.5 %
  5. Palasbari 3,115 ha · 4.6 %
  6. Chhaygaon 1,535 ha · 3.3 %
  7. Sonapur 37 ha · 0.1 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
2026532,619 Haflong 11,791 ha
2025310,958 Donka 6,540 ha
202416,727 Donka 6,727 ha
202324,129 Haflong 3,243 ha
2022314,663 Haflong 5,172 ha
2021314,619 Haflong 11,302 ha
201912,010 Umsning 2,010 ha
201728,637 Donka 8,438 ha
2016311,115 Haflong 6,069 ha

All fires in Assam · 23

Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/DataMeet India community, Election Commission of India (Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 India (CC BY 2.5 IN)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).