PUNE: With 7,042 cases, Gadchiroli district in Maharashtra reported the highest number of forest fire incidents in the country. The fire incidents were detected with the help of the SNPP-VIIRS system by the Forest Survey of India (FSI) between November 2023 to June 2024. Meanwhile, with 16,008 similar occurrences reported between November 2023 and June 2024, Maharashtra ranks fifth among the states with the highest number of forest fire incidents reported.
The Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change (MOEFCC) recently published a report titled 'India State of Forest Report 2023' (ISFR 2023) on Saturday, December 21, which provided detailed information about the forest fire incidents detected in the country.
According to the report's statistics, the number of fire hotspots detected by the SNPP-VIIRS sensor during the 2023-24 season was 2,03,544, compared to 2,23,333 in the 2021-22 season and 2,12,249 in the 2022-23 season. The top three states with the most fire incidents in the 2023-24 season were Uttarakhand, Odisha, and Chhattisgarh.
In this report, the ministry also shared details of the burnt area assessment, which was carried out to assess forest areas affected by forest fires and damage to forest and biodiversity. Remote sensing and GIS techniques are being actively used for real-time forest fire monitoring and damage assessment.
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