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Wildfires in North Maluku
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 10:26 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 5,580 km² of North Maluku at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 620 km², ranking 26th 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 3,490 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 120 km². The 2021–2025 average is 82% 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.
September, October and November together hold 50% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 22 September 2015, with detections in 267 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 5,580 km² with at least one detection, 12% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 3,790 | 68% |
| 2 years | 1,130 | 20% |
| 3 to 5 years | 586 | 11% |
| 6 to 10 years | 52 | 0.9% |
| 11 years or more | 16 | 0.3% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 1.25, 127.75 and holds 27% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 514 | 840 |
| 2013 | 420 | 733 |
| 2014 | 958 | 1,778 |
| 2015 | 3,490 | 5,926 |
| 2016 | 427 | 779 |
| 2017 | 164 | 477 |
| 2018 | 493 | 754 |
| 2019 | 933 | 1,552 |
| 2020 | 252 | 988 |
| 2021 | 133 | 1,048 |
| 2022 | 120 | 1,034 |
| 2023 | 408 | 1,838 |
| 2024 | 176 | 1,455 |
| 2025 | 193 | 1,755 |
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
- East Kalimantan7,270 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
- North Sulawesi324 km
- Gorontalo558 km
- Sarangani, Philippines621 km
- Davao del Sur, Philippines621 km
- General Santos, Philippines621 km
- South Cotabato, Philippines647 km