Sahibganj

Next 7 daysLow2%

Quiet now. The season usually starts late February

Annual mean: 0detections
Peak period: early February – early May
Record year: 2004551
Trend: +15%/ 10not significant · on raw data: +105%

Fire clock

Ring = year, slice = week. Tap a week to see its fires on the map.

Total detections per year: ODLAR's corrected record (on the VIIRS Suomi NPP scale) and the raw record (MODIS and VIIRS joined as they are)
Year	Harmonized	Raw
2001	346	11
2002	191	3
2003	84	8
2004	551	72
2005	365	51
2006	281	37
2007	253	31
2008	253	33
2009	183	25
2010	456	60
2011	202	23
2012	277	274
2013	279	279
2014	265	265
2015	170	170
2016	355	355
2017	230	230
2018	229	274
2019	348	715
2020	187	365
2021	531	1019
2022	499	815
2023	445	866
2024	294	614
2025	486	1027
2026	170	560

Tap a week to see the detections behind it.

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

A detection is a heat signal seen from space, not burned area or a count of separate fires.

November vs a usual year

Quiet, as usual

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

This month: 0.0
Usual (median): 0.0
Rank: 12 of 26

Next 7 days

Low

Full risk view

Low

Expected detections: ~0.1

No rain expected in the coming days↑
An active part of the fire season↑
This year is quieter than normal↓

Sun28°

Mon29°

Tue27°

Wed26°

Thu27°

Fri27°

Sat26°

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

Low

~0.1 expected · usual 0.2

Next 3 months

About usual

~8.4 expected · usual 9.1

likely 0.7–14 · usual 0.0–18

Season

Starts ~22 February
Peak ~15 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.

Season

late February – early April

Onset: late February
Peak: mid March
End: early April

Critical windows

early February – early May
96% of annual activity

The normal year vs 2026

Bands show the 25-year range; the white line is this year so far.

Compare with

25-year history

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

Harmonized: +15%/10Raw: +105%/10

HarmonizedNaive merged record90% uncertainty

Jump test (Pettitt): the raw record jumps in 2012 to 16.1× its earlier level (p < 0.001). ODLAR's record has none (p 0.21).

Unusual years

7

2001
346
season began 6 weeks early
2002
191
season began 5 weeks early
season ended 3 weeks late
2003
84
only 0.3× the normal annual activity
season began 6 weeks early
2009
183
season ended 3 weeks early
2014
265
season began 3 weeks late
2020
187
season began 3 weeks late
2024
294
season ended 4 weeks late

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