Wildfires in Chhattīsgarh
Chhattīsgarh, India: 44 fires with a page have entered 29 of its 150 subdistricts since 2016, burning 576,639 hectares inside the region. The largest was Orchha in 3 April 2017, with 138,222 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).
Only fires of 5,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.
These figures leave out one burn that was probably not a wildfire (agricultural, pasture, reed-bed or prescribed). They appear in the lists, marked.
- hectares burned
- 576,639ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 4.2%
- 136,170 km²
- fires
- 44
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 29
- of 150
- Largest fire
- 138,222ha
- Orchha · 3 April 2017
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 30 Very low 28° · 63 % · 30 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 29° · 63 % · 22 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 29° · 60 % · 18 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 29° · 62 % · 25 km/h
- Tue 3 Very low 29° · 67 % · 28 km/h
- Wed 4 Very low 29° · 76 % · 26 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 28° · 69 % · 22 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 28° · 75 % · 19 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Orchha 363,362 ha · 1.0×
- Bhopalpattnam 64,912 ha · 29 %
- Usur 29,822 ha · 13 %
- Nawagarh 17,271 ha · 45 %
- Rajim 16,276 ha · 27 %
- Bhairamgarh 14,093 ha · 6.0 %
- Bijapur 13,018 ha · 8.5 %
- Lormi 8,410 ha · 5.1 %
- Magarlod 7,666 ha · 10 %
- Mahasamund 6,485 ha · 6.0 %
- Konta 6,289 ha · 1.7 %
- Oudgi 6,251 ha · 3.6 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 17×Orchha363,362 ha
- 8×Bhopalpattnam64,912 ha
- 7×Usur29,822 ha
- 6×Bhairamgarh14,093 ha
- 5×Bijapur13,018 ha
- 2×Nawagarh17,271 ha
- 2×Lormi8,410 ha
- 2×Magarlod7,666 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 138,222 haOrchha3 April 2017 · 27 days of 165,613 ha in total
- 112,225 haOrchhaApril 2026 · 24 days of 127,652 ha in total
- 35,834 haBhopalpattnamMarch 2026 · 38 days
- 23,024 haOrchha4 April 2016 · 13 days
- 16,837 haRajimDecember 2025 · 29 days
- 16,654 haNawagarhDecember 2025 · 38 days
- 15,947 haOrchha7 April 2016 · 22 days
- 14,068 haOrchha5 April 2017 · 12 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 8 | 183,452 | Orchha 112,225 ha |
| 2025 | 5 | 54,053 | Rajim 16,837 ha |
| 2023 | 1 | 5,922 | Orchha 5,922 ha |
| 2022 | 1 | 3,427 | Wajedu 3,427 ha |
| 2021 | 10 | 49,754 | Orchha 8,511 ha |
| 2019 | 4 | 26,034 | Orchha 8,116 ha |
| 2018 | 1 | 9,603 | Bhopalpattnam 9,603 ha |
| 2017 | 9 | 186,872 | Orchha 138,222 ha |
| 2016 | 6 | 65,101 | Orchha 23,024 ha |
All fires in Chhattīsgarh · 45
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 8,491 haNawagarhJune 2026 · 9 days
- 5,116 haBijapurApril 2026 · 17 days
- 112,225 haOrchhaApril 2026 · 24 days of 127,652 ha in total
- 35,834 haBhopalpattnamMarch 2026 · 38 days
- 6,026 haBijapurMarch 2026 · 22 days
- 1,211 haCherlaMarch 2026 · 6 days of 5,200 ha in total
- 3,805 haUsurMarch 2026 · 27 days of 8,149 ha in total
- 10,744 haWajeduMarch 2026 · 17 days of 36,286 ha in total
- 5,578 haBasnaDecember 2025 · 22 days
- 16,654 haNawagarhDecember 2025 · 38 days
- 7,578 haMagarlodDecember 2025 · probable burn · not counted · 23 days
- 16,837 haRajimDecember 2025 · 29 days
- 7,406 haMahasamundDecember 2025 · 31 days
- 5,922 haOrchhaMay 2023 · 11 days
- 3,427 haWajeduMarch 2022 · 10 days of 6,841 ha in total
- 7,022 haOrchha31 March 2021 · 6 days of 7,405 ha in total
- 6,315 haUsurMarch 2021 · 8 days
- 6,849 haKontaMarch 2021 · 5 days
- 8,511 haOrchha28 March 2021 · 11 days
- 5,592 haBhopalpattnamMarch 2021 · 8 days
- 6,911 haOrchha27 March 2021 · 11 days
- 699 haGaruMarch 2021 · 12 days of 7,022 ha in total
- 5,289 haOrchha25 March 2021 · 10 days
- 37 haWajeduMarch 2021 · 9 days of 6,057 ha in total
- 2,528 haSaraipaliMarch 2021 · 9 days of 5,775 ha in total
- 3,737 haOrchhaMay 2019 · 7 days of 5,119 ha in total
- 6,105 haOrchha14 April 2019 · 6 days
- 8,116 haOrchha3 April 2019 · 12 days
- 8,075 haBhopalpattnamMarch 2019 · 17 days
- 9,603 haBhopalpattnamMarch 2018 · 4 days
- 6,547 haUsurApril 2017 · 14 days
- 14,068 haOrchha5 April 2017 · 12 days
- 6,994 haOrchha4 April 2017 · 20 days
- 138,222 haOrchha3 April 2017 · 27 days of 165,613 ha in total
- 5,041 haAntagarhApril 2017 · 22 days
- 1,634 haBhandariaMarch 2017 · 13 days of 5,165 ha in total
- 6,251 haOudgiMarch 2017 · 10 days
- 486 haKusmiMarch 2017 · 20 days of 6,172 ha in total
- 7,630 haBhopalpattnamMarch 2017 · 20 days
- 15,947 haOrchha7 April 2016 · 22 days
- 8,833 haOrchha4 April 2016 · 15 days
- 23,024 haOrchha4 April 2016 · 13 days
- 4,344 haBhamragadApril 2016 · 15 days of 7,316 ha in total
- 6,117 haLormi21 March 2016 · 6 days
- 6,836 haLormi19 March 2016 · 15 days
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).
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