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Wildfires in Indonesia

Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC

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• Acehno fires now
• Bali3 fires
• Bangka Belitung Islands67 fires
• Banten13 fires
• Bengkulu17 fires
• Central Java30 fires
• Central Kalimantan290 fires
• Central Sulawesi44 fires
• East Java73 fires
• East Kalimantan68 fires
• East Nusa Tenggara192 fires
• Gorontalo19 fires
• Jakarta Rayano fires now
• Jambi22 fires
• Lampung59 fires
• Maluku101 fires
• North Maluku110 fires
• North Sulawesi13 fires
• North Sumatra1 fire
• Papua335 fires
• Riau1 fire
• Riau Islands2 fires
• South Kalimantan145 fires
• South Sulawesi112 fires
• South Sumatra159 fires
• Southeast Sulawesi90 fires
• West Java31 fires
• West Kalimantan80 fires
• West Nusa Tenggara88 fires
• West Papua117 fires
• West Sulawesi6 fires
• West Sumatrano fires now
• Yogyakarta1 fire

The 300 most powerful are listed below.

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Fire history, 2012–2025

Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-21

Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 588,250 km² of Indonesia at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 104,670 km², ranking 25th of 200 countries.

Year by year

The busiest year was 2015, with 254,640 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 36,250 km². The 2021–2025 average is 58% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

August, September and October together hold 68% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 20 October 2015, with detections in 10,526 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 588,250 km² with at least one detection, 36% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detection	km²	Share
1 year	241,380	41%
2 years	133,060	23%
3 to 5 years	167,490	28%
6 to 10 years	43,760	7.4%
11 years or more	2,570	0.4%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -3.25, 105.25 and holds 0.9% of the country's fire-days.

The figures

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Year	Detected km²	Fire-days
2012	147,620	210,295
2013	114,610	157,954
2014	190,530	323,768
2015	254,640	490,174
2016	66,300	80,401
2017	60,150	68,083
2018	102,050	129,397
2019	149,260	245,764
2020	57,250	67,278
2021	42,850	50,709
2022	36,250	42,742
2023	119,460	169,731
2024	64,500	77,069
2025	59,900	71,099

Nearby countries

• India324,930 km² in an average year
• Myanmar189,670 km² in an average year
• China182,410 km² in an average year
• Thailand104,620 km² in an average year
• Lao PDR73,670 km² in an average year
• Cambodia67,840 km² in an average year
• How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.

Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.

Nearby countries

• Singapore527 km
• Malaysia756 km
• Brunei Darussalam1,338 km

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What sits behind each of these fires

Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.