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Wildfires in East Kalimantan
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 15:22 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 45,880 km² of East Kalimantan at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 7,270 km², ranking 6th of 33 regions of Indonesia.
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 22,430 km² detected; the quietest was 2021, with 2,140 km². The 2021–2025 average is 63% 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 69% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 24 October 2015, with detections in 1,176 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 45,880 km² with at least one detection, 31% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 20,300 | 44% |
| 2 years | 11,220 | 24% |
| 3 to 5 years | 12,250 | 27% |
| 6 to 10 years | 2,060 | 4.5% |
| 11 years or more | 46 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -0.75, 117.25 and holds 5.4% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 8,760 | 11,052 |
| 2013 | 6,580 | 7,742 |
| 2014 | 13,490 | 19,470 |
| 2015 | 22,430 | 39,680 |
| 2016 | 6,250 | 9,917 |
| 2017 | 3,310 | 3,938 |
| 2018 | 6,050 | 7,546 |
| 2019 | 9,370 | 14,921 |
| 2020 | 4,280 | 5,840 |
| 2021 | 2,140 | 2,540 |
| 2022 | 2,310 | 2,642 |
| 2023 | 7,040 | 10,030 |
| 2024 | 5,880 | 8,024 |
| 2025 | 3,890 | 4,968 |
Other regions of Indonesia
- West Kalimantan14,970 km² in an average year
- East Nusa Tenggara10,660 km² in an average year
- Central Kalimantan9,650 km² in an average year
- Papua8,040 km² in an average year
- South Sumatra7,690 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.
Nearby regions
- West Sulawesi277 km
- South Kalimantan314 km
- Central Kalimantan400 km
- South Sulawesi497 km
- Central Sulawesi503 km
- Sarawak, Malaysia628 km