Wildfires in Tripura
Tripura, India: 17 fires with a page have entered 8 of its 22 subdistricts since 2016, burning 147,042 hectares inside the region. The largest was Gandacherra in March 2020, with 24,298 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).
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
- 147,042ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 14%
- 10,451 km²
- fires
- 17
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 8
- of 22
- Largest fire
- 24,298ha
- Gandacherra · March 2020
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sun 1 Very low 31° · 58 % · 18 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 31° · 59 % · 20 km/h
- Tue 3 Low 31° · 54 % · 22 km/h
- Wed 4 Low 31° · 52 % · 21 km/h
- Thu 5 Low 30° · 54 % · 19 km/h
- Fri 6 Low 30° · 52 % · 19 km/h
- Sat 7 Low 30° · 53 % · 19 km/h
- Sun 8 Low 32° · 52 % · 20 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Longtharai Valley 62,884 ha · 68 %
- Ambassa 33,455 ha · 59 %
- Kanchanpur 23,401 ha · 31 %
- Gandacherra 14,930 ha · 32 %
- Kumarghat 5,087 ha · 12 %
- Teliamura 4,402 ha · 8.5 %
- Karbook 1,595 ha · 4.5 %
- Amarpur 1,289 ha · 2.1 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 10×Longtharai Valley62,884 ha
- 9×Kanchanpur23,401 ha
- 5×Ambassa33,455 ha
- 5×Gandacherra14,930 ha
- 3×Kumarghat5,087 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 24,298 haGandacherraMarch 2020 · 12 days
- 19,174 haLongtharai ValleyApril 2023 · 14 days of 21,363 ha in total
- 15,555 haLongtharai ValleyMarch 2021 · 10 days
- 14,972 haAmbassaApril 2026 · 16 days
- 14,654 haLongtharai Valley23 March 2020 · 11 days
- 10,482 haLongtharai Valley25 March 2020 · 8 days
- 8,575 haAmbassaApril 2023 · 11 days
- 8,555 haAmbassaMarch 2021 · 10 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 | 3 | 21,287 | Ambassa 14,972 ha |
| 2025 | 1 | 5,988 | Ambassa 5,988 ha |
| 2023 | 3 | 33,956 | Longtharai Valley 19,174 ha |
| 2022 | 1 | 701 | Zawlnuam 701 ha |
| 2021 | 3 | 24,590 | Longtharai Valley 15,555 ha |
| 2020 | 3 | 49,435 | Gandacherra 24,298 ha |
| 2019 | 2 | 6,028 | Kanchanpur 5,681 ha |
| 2016 | 1 | 5,058 | Longtharai Valley 5,058 ha |
All fires in Tripura · 17
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 3,651 haLongtharai ValleyApril 2026 · 13 days of 6,636 ha in total
- 14,972 haAmbassaApril 2026 · 16 days
- 2,665 haGandacherraApril 2026 · 22 days of 15,041 ha in total
- 5,988 haAmbassaMarch 2025 · 23 days
- 6,206 haKanchanpurApril 2023 · 9 days
- 19,174 haLongtharai ValleyApril 2023 · 14 days of 21,363 ha in total
- 8,575 haAmbassaApril 2023 · 11 days
- 701 haZawlnuamMarch 2022 · 9 days of 5,558 ha in total
- 8,555 haAmbassaMarch 2021 · 10 days
- 15,555 haLongtharai ValleyMarch 2021 · 10 days
- 480 haZawlnuamMarch 2021 · 12 days of 8,761 ha in total
- 10,482 haLongtharai Valley25 March 2020 · 8 days
- 14,654 haLongtharai Valley23 March 2020 · 11 days
- 24,298 haGandacherraMarch 2020 · 12 days
- 5,681 haKanchanpurMarch 2019 · 3 days
- 347 haZawlnuamMarch 2019 · 6 days of 9,469 ha in total
- 5,058 haLongtharai ValleyApril 2016 · 8 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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