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Wildfires in Central Kalimantan

Name: Fire history of Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, 2012-2025
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Province of Indonesia

Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 08:29 UTC

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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 2026-09-23

Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 61,680 km² of Central Kalimantan at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 9,650 km², ranking 3rd of 33 regions of Indonesia.

9,650 km²detected in an average year

2015busiest year, 33,960 km²

2022quietest year, 1,270 km²

Septemberpeak month, 45% of fire-days

Year by year

Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.

The busiest year was 2015, with 33,960 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 1,270 km². The 2021–2025 average is 77% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.

August, September and October together hold 90% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 14 October 2015, with detections in 3,900 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 61,680 km² with at least one detection, 32% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detection	km²	Share
1 year	26,260	43%
2 years	15,660	25%
3 to 5 years	17,660	29%
6 to 10 years	2,080	3.4%
11 years or more	12	0.0%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -2.75, 114.25 and holds 6.6% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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Year	Detected km²	Fire-days
2012	15,210	23,459
2013	10,670	13,021
2014	23,570	46,112
2015	33,960	97,354
2016	3,250	3,065
2017	2,280	2,078
2018	6,790	9,223
2019	16,490	39,592
2020	2,640	2,380
2021	1,550	1,410
2022	1,270	1,196
2023	10,530	18,025
2024	3,610	3,455
2025	3,330	3,151

Other regions of Indonesia

West Kalimantan14,970 km² in an average year
East Nusa Tenggara10,660 km² in an average year
Papua8,040 km² in an average year
South Sumatra7,690 km² in an average year
East Kalimantan7,270 km² in an average year
Riau5,370 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.

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