District-wise Forest Cover -Jharkhand

  Number of districts : 18                                                                                                                                   Back

District Geographic Area   2005 Assessment Percent of G.A. Change Scrub
Very dense forest Mod. dense forest Open forest Total
Bokaro 1,929 58 227 295 580 30.07 0 52
Chatra 3,732 259 844 687 1,790 47.96 6 12
DeogharT 2,479 3 26 91 120 4.84 5 4
Dhanbad 2,996 0 45 163 208 6.94 0 20
Dumka 6,212 0 120 408 528 8.50 3 75
Garhwa 4,092 144 448 821 1,413 34.53 2 55
Giridih 4,963 98 301 421 820 16.52 1 10
Godda 2,110 32 120 237 389 18.44 0 28
GumlaT 9,077 261 904 1,385 2,550 28.09 0 36
Hazaribagh 5,998 282 632 1,159 2,073 34.56 1 53
Koderma 1,453 93 288 222 603 42.02 0 1
LohardagaT 1,491 148 223 128 499 33.47 0 5
PakurT 1,571 7 45 244 296 18.84 0 16
PalamuT 8,657 496 1,802 1,273 3,571 41.25 4 84
Pashchimi SinghbhumT 9,907 442 1,593 7,771 3,806 38.42 0 81
Purbi SinghbhumT 3,533 51 534 360 945 26.75 0 60
RanchiT 7,698 144 677 1,029 1,850 24.03 0 67
Sahebganj 1,834 26 249 275 550 29.99 0 74
Total 79,714 2,544 9,078 10,969 22,591 28.34 22 733

  Source   :   Forest Survey of India, Dehradun. State of forest report 2005. Dehradun, FSI, 2008. p.86.