District Wise Forest Area in Haryana (SFR-2015)

Forest Survey of India Estimates the Forest Cover for all states in India once in two years. As per the State of Forest Report ( SFR-2015) published by the Forest Survey of India, the Forest Cover in Haryana is 1584 sq km and Trees Outside Forest (TOF) is 1395 sq km. Thus the total Forest and Tree cover in Haryana is 2939 sq km which is 6.65% of the Total Geographical Area of Haryana.

In this Post, District wise forest Area is given. Such type of information is asked in any Competitive Exam. We hope this will help you in the various examinations.

District Wise Forest Area in Haryana (SFR-2015)

District	Geo Area in Sq KM	Forest Cover (km)
Very Dense	Dense	Open	Total	%
Ambala	1574	0	15	28	43	2.73
Bhiwani	4778	0	14	136	150	3.14
Faridabad	2151	0	28	64	92	4.28
Fatehabad	2538	0	2	16	18	0.71
Gurugram	2766	0	49	180	229	8.28
Hisar	3983	0	12	31	43	1.08
Jhajjar	2702	0	3	28	31	1.15
Jind	1834	0	5	15	20	1.09
Kaithal	2520	0	36	39	75	2.98
Karnal	2317	0	5	35	40	1.73
Kurukshetra	1530	0	10	17	27	1.76
Mahendragarh	1859	0	16	53	69	3.71
Panchkula	1268	0	150	239	395	31.15
Panipat	898	0	3	12	15	1.67
Rewari	1745	0	8	45	53	3.04
Rohtak	1582	0	3	16	19	1.20
Sirsa	4277	0	3	52	55	1.29
Sonipat	2122	0	4	17	21	0.99
Yamunanagar	1768	21	86	82	189	10.69

Remember –

Highest Forest Cover District – Panchkula 395 sq km (31.15 %)

Smallest Forest District – Fatehabad, 18 sq km (0.71%)

Forest Resource of Haryana

Description	Sq Km
Geographical Area	44212
Forest Cover
Very Dense	27
Moderately Dense	452
Open	1105
Total Forest Cover	1584
% of State’s Geographical Area (%)	3.58
Tree Cover (TOF)
Tree cover outside forests	1355
% of State’s Geographical Area (%)	3.07
Total Forest & Tree Cover	2939
% of state’s Geographical Area (%)	6.65