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Wildfires in Bihār

Bihār, India: 10 fires with a page have entered 21 of its 534 subdistricts since 2016, burning 162,027 hectares inside the region. The largest was Kargahar in April 2026, with 39,510 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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
162,027ha
Since 2016
Of the region
1.7%
94,416 km²
fires
10
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
21
of 534
Largest fire
39,510ha
Kargahar · 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 30° · 52 % · 19 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 29° · 50 % · 19 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 29° · 49 % · 18 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 30° · 49 % · 18 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 30° · 46 % · 15 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 31° · 50 % · 18 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 81 % · 49 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 24° · 87 % · 63 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

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

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Kargahar 37,063 ha · 1.1×
  2. Kochas 16,664 ha · 72 %
  3. Kharagpur 15,699 ha · 46 %
  4. Barhat 15,290 ha · 68 %
  5. Dharhara 14,036 ha · 48 %
  6. Ramnagar 13,486 ha · 19 %
  7. Surajgarha 11,182 ha · 29 %
  8. Kudra 8,002 ha · 39 %
  9. Sidhaw 6,688 ha · 8.0 %
  10. Gaunaha 4,419 ha · 8.6 %
  11. Nuaon 3,697 ha · 20 %
  12. Dinara 2,892 ha · 8.7 %

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
2026354,486 Kargahar 39,510 ha
2025230,695 Kargahar 24,791 ha
2023110,649 Ramnagar 10,649 ha
2022132,076 Kharagpur 32,076 ha
202117,172 Ramnagar 7,172 ha
2017120,176 Lakshmipur 20,176 ha
201616,773 Sidhaw 6,773 ha

All fires in Bihār · 10

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).