Wildfires in Odisha
Odisha, India: 18 fires with a page have entered 43 of its 474 subdistricts since 2016, burning 122,689 hectares inside the region. The largest was Gurundia in March 2021, with 19,968 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
- 122,689ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.8%
- 156,754 km²
- fires
- 18
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 43
- of 474
- Largest fire
- 19,968ha
- Gurundia · March 2021
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Low 30° · 47 % · 27 km/h
- Sat 24 Low 30° · 41 % · 24 km/h
- Sun 25 Low 30° · 41 % · 24 km/h
- Mon 26 Moderate 29° · 38 % · 26 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 29° · 56 % · 50 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 22° · 98 % · 62 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 24° · 98 % · 72 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 28° · 71 % · 50 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Gurundia 15,617 ha · 19 %
- Bangiriposi 8,762 ha · 11 %
- Madanpur Rampur 7,185 ha · 6.5 %
- Puruna Katak 7,089 ha · 19 %
- Raikia 6,893 ha · 14 %
- R.Udayagiri 6,234 ha · 6.8 %
- Belaghar 5,075 ha · 13 %
- Brahmanigaon 4,829 ha · 9.4 %
- Daringbadi 4,740 ha · 6.5 %
- Banigochha 4,635 ha · 12 %
- Harbhanga 4,458 ha · 7.4 %
- Khandapada 4,049 ha · 12 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 2×Puruna Katak7,089 ha
- 2×Raikia6,893 ha
- 2×Badagada2,492 ha
- 2×Adava2,258 ha
- 2×Mohana1,814 ha
- 2×Surada838 ha
- 2×Tumudibandha122 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 19,968 haGurundiaMarch 2021 · 7 days
- 10,188 haRaikiaMarch 2021 · 7 days
- 9,671 haBangiriposiMarch 2021 · 5 days
- 7,877 haHarbhangaMarch 2026 · 10 days
- 7,320 haDaringbadiMarch 2021 · 6 days
- 7,206 haMadanpur RampurApril 2017 · 8 days
- 6,773 haBanigochhaMarch 2021 · 5 days
- 6,738 haAnandapurFebruary 2026 · 8 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 | 5 | 25,279 | Harbhanga 7,877 ha |
| 2021 | 11 | 84,976 | Gurundia 19,968 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 7,206 | Madanpur Rampur 7,206 ha |
| 2016 | 1 | 5,228 | Kisinda 5,228 ha |
All fires in Odisha · 18
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 18 haY. RamavaramApril 2026 · 10 days of 6,182 ha in total
- 5,376 haBelagharApril 2026 · 15 days
- 7,877 haHarbhangaMarch 2026 · 10 days
- 5,270 haNayagarh SadarFebruary 2026 · 7 days
- 6,738 haAnandapurFebruary 2026 · 8 days
- 6,418 haR.UdayagiriMarch 2021 · 5 days
- 5,079 haAdavaMarch 2021 · 3 days
- 9,671 haBangiriposiMarch 2021 · 5 days
- 6,130 haBrahmanigaonMarch 2021 · 4 days
- 6,773 haBanigochhaMarch 2021 · 5 days
- 19,968 haGurundiaMarch 2021 · 7 days
- 10,188 haRaikiaMarch 2021 · 7 days
- 7,320 haDaringbadiMarch 2021 · 6 days
- 5,094 haHandapaMarch 2021 · 8 days
- 3,275 haSaraipaliMarch 2021 · 9 days of 5,775 ha in total
- 5,060 haPuruna KatakFebruary 2021 · 8 days
- 7,206 haMadanpur RampurApril 2017 · 8 days
- 5,228 haKisindaMarch 2016 · 6 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).