Wildfires in Jhārkhand
Jhārkhand, India: 9 fires with a page have entered 13 of its 264 subdistricts since 2016, burning 64,243 hectares inside the region. The largest was Peshrar in March 2017, with 12,879 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 13).
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
- 64,243ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.8%
- 80,235 km²
- fires
- 9
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 13
- of 264
- Largest fire
- 12,879ha
- Peshrar · March 2017
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sun 25 Moderate 28° · 48 % · 19 km/h
- Mon 26 Moderate 28° · 48 % · 25 km/h
- Tue 27 Moderate 30° · 53 % · 22 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 26° · 74 % · 15 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 24° · 97 % · 43 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 28° · 80 % · 51 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 29° · 66 % · 23 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 30° · 71 % · 19 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Garu 11,560 ha · 23 %
- Bandgaon 9,914 ha · 15 %
- Barwadih 8,353 ha · 12 %
- Peshrar 6,711 ha · 19 %
- Khuntpani 5,526 ha · 14 %
- Bishunpur 5,377 ha · 8.8 %
- Bhandaria 4,975 ha · 7.2 %
- Tonto 3,244 ha · 5.8 %
- Sonua 2,469 ha · 9.4 %
- Mahuadanr 2,242 ha · 3.9 %
- Goilkera 1,844 ha · 3.1 %
- Chakradharpur 1,238 ha · 3.4 %
Largest recorded fires
- 12,879 haPeshrarMarch 2017 · 16 days
- 8,936 haGaruMay 2019 · 8 days
- 8,282 haBarwadihMarch 2022 · 9 days
- 7,263 haBandgaonMarch 2021 · 7 days
- 6,358 haGaruMarch 2021 · 12 days of 7,022 ha in total
- 6,240 haTontoMarch 2021 · 9 days
- 5,606 haKhuntpaniFebruary 2021 · 8 days
- 5,124 haBandgaonFebruary 2021 · 12 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Jhārkhand · 9
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 8,282 haBarwadihMarch 2022 · 9 days
- 6,358 haGaruMarch 2021 · 12 days of 7,022 ha in total
- 6,240 haTontoMarch 2021 · 9 days
- 7,263 haBandgaonMarch 2021 · 7 days
- 5,606 haKhuntpaniFebruary 2021 · 8 days
- 5,124 haBandgaonFebruary 2021 · 12 days
- 8,936 haGaruMay 2019 · 8 days
- 3,555 haBhandariaMarch 2017 · 13 days of 5,165 ha in total
- 12,879 haPeshrarMarch 2017 · 16 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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