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Bhawanipatna Fire and Emergency Safety Guide

Bhawanipatna is the district headquarters of Kalahandi in western Odisha, with the Tel and Indravati rivers in the district around it. This guide puts the emergency numbers, the district fire stations and the main local risks on one page, using the hazards the district disaster plan records.

Checked 15 Nov 2026 Incidents update automatically. Emergency card for the fridge or your phone
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101Fire 108Ambulance 100Police 06670-230666Bhawanipatna Fire Station
06670-230455 District Emergency Operation CentreCollectorate control room, also 06670-230457 1070 Rescue and ReliefListed on the district website

101: Fire station line on the Kalahandi district website · 108: Also 102 for the Janani ambulance · 100: Police line · 06670-230666: Office line from the 2019 district plan

Take these numbers with you

Print the Bhawanipatna emergency card for the fridge or the front door, and cut out the wallet cards. It holds 112, 101, the ambulance and police numbers, and the Bhawanipatna fire, disaster and civic numbers from this guide. There are blank lines for your family contacts and the nearest hospital.

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Checked 15 November 2026. Numbers can change; re-check them before you rely on them.

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Local risks in Bhawanipatna

River floods

The 2025-26 district plan records 15 floods since 2012 that affected about 65,780 people. It lists flood embankment works around villages of Bhawanipatna block such as Kandulguda and Barfa.

Lightning

The plan lists 76 lightning incidents and 76 deaths in the district since 2012. Its state-level text says lightning has taken more lives than any other natural calamity in the past decade.

Summer fires

The plan records 83 fire incidents in the district since 2012 and notes that fire accidents rise in the summer months.

Heat waves

The plan lists 12 heat wave incidents with 8 deaths since 2012, along with 10 droughts that affected about 94,000 people. Heat stroke is a real danger for outdoor labour in the summer months.

Fire stations in Bhawanipatna

13 stations. Tap Call to ring the station office.

StationAreaContact
Bhawanipatna Fire StationBhawanipatna townCall06670-230666
Lanjigarh Fire StationKalahandi districtCall 101
Dharamgarh Fire StationKalahandi districtCall 101
Kesinga Fire StationKalahandi districtCall 101
Junagarh Fire StationKalahandi districtCall 101
Koksara Fire StationKalahandi districtCall 101
Jaipatna Fire StationKalahandi districtCall 101
Kalampur Fire StationKalahandi districtCall 101
Karlamunda Fire StationKalahandi districtCall 101
Narla Fire StationKalahandi districtCall 101
M. Rampur Fire StationKalahandi districtCall 101
Golamunda Fire StationKalahandi districtCall 101
Th. Rampur Fire StationKalahandi districtCall 101

This is the thirteen-station list in the 2019 district disaster plan, and only the Bhawanipatna station is in the town. The newer 2025-26 plan prints different office lines, so only the Bhawanipatna landline is shown. In an emergency, call 101 first; station lines are office numbers.

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Bhawanipatna at a glance

Where it is
The district headquarters of Kalahandi, in western Odisha
District area
7,920 sq km, about 32 percent of it forest
Population
In the Census 2011 the district's rural population was 14,54,882, which is 92.26 percent of the total
Fire stations
13 in the district plan, one of them in Bhawanipatna town
Emergency system
Fire is 101, ambulance 108 and police 100

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