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Data through 14 November 2026 · made 15 November 2026

Fire report

Purbi Singhbhum

Jhārkhand · India

Fire season starts in about 5 weeks

November vs a usual year

One of the highest on record

Weeks of 26 Oct – 8 Nov, compared with the same weeks of every year since 2001

ODLAR
› 20.6×
Raw data
› 67.0×
usual = 1×
This month
41
Usual (median)
2.0
Rank
1 of 26

Raw satellite data would say 67.0× the usual, because it joins MODIS and VIIRS as they are and VIIRS sees far more small fires. Corrected, it is 20.6×.

Key numbers

Annual mean
447
Peak period
early February – late April
Record year
2021
1,217
Trend
+17% / 10
on raw data: +85%

Burning calendar, week by week (harmonized detections)

Lighter: less certain (mostly the MODIS years, before 2012)No observationSatellite outage

25-year history

The raw record jumps in 2012 when VIIRS arrives; the harmonized record does not.

Harmonized: +17%/10Raw: +85%/10
HarmonizedNaive merged record90% uncertainty

Jump test (Pettitt): the raw record jumps in 2013 to 17.6× its earlier level (p < 0.001). ODLAR's record has none (p 0.44).

What's ahead

From the next days to a year out. The further ahead, the less certain, and the chart says which part is a forecast and which is just the usual year.

Next 7 days

Extreme

~30 expected · usual 4.0

Next 3 months

About usual

~82 expected · usual 75

likely 35–225 · usual 16–146

Season

  • Starts ~14 December
  • Peak ~8 March
ForecastLikely rangeUsualUsual rangedetections / week
How sure is this?
  • Daily fire weather: the Open-Meteo weather forecast, most reliable for the first 3 days.
  • Next 7 days: tested on 6 past years, the model ranked a week that turned busy above a quiet one 86 times in 100 (the season alone: 72).
  • Next 3 months: the real total fell inside the likely range 76 times in 100 (the usual range alone: 71).
  • Beyond 3 months: the usual year. 8 in 10 past years fell inside the grey band. Weather that far ahead is not known.

About this report

Counts are NASA FIRMS active-fire detections (MODIS since 2000, VIIRS since 2012) put on one scale (harmonized), so years before and after 2012 can be compared.

A detection is a heat signal seen from space, not burned area or a count of separate fires. Clouds and smoke hide some fires; hatched weeks had no satellite observation.

Weather: Open-Meteo forecast and NASA POWER history. Forecast reliability is from tests on past years the models never saw.

Source: ODLAR, https://odlar.app/region/in-jharkhand-purbi-singhbhum