The Coal mine fire problem occurs globally and cause danger to miners’ life. It dominantly contributes towards adverse impact on environment as well as leads to economic setback to the nation. It also poses several societal influences in terms of health and life hazard on populace residing nearby mine fire areas including several other mining operational complications to the coal mine operators. Detection of magnitude and extent of fire is one of the most important steps to decide measures for its mitigation. Without the knowledge of its magnitude and extent, any preventing and control measure becomes useless. The present study was conducted to prognosticate the fire conditions, its magnitude/intensity and its extent and direction of propagationin over burden dumping and its surrounding mining area at Sarubera (East) Colliery, Kuju Area, Central Coalfield Limited. The whole identified fire locations covers an area around 500 × 500 m was divided into 10 × 10 grids/nodes and temperature of each grid were measured using infra-red thermal imaging camera. The ground coordinates of all monitoring locations are determined by surface survey plan of the mine and maximum temperature of each node was recorded. On the basis of study a 3-Dimensional thermal profile of the identified zone has been generated and based on the observations drawn by temporal surface thermal mapping state, extent of fire and its rate of propagation was determined.