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Wildfires in North Sulawesi
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 3,680 km² of North Sulawesi at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 517 km², ranking 27th 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 2,450 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 113 km². The 2021–2025 average is 75% 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 62% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 18 October 2015, with detections in 194 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 3,680 km² with at least one detection, 23% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 2,120 | 58% |
| 2 years | 722 | 20% |
| 3 to 5 years | 673 | 18% |
| 6 to 10 years | 152 | 4.1% |
| 11 years or more | 12 | 0.3% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 2.75, 125.25 and holds 30% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 363 | 726 |
| 2013 | 296 | 566 |
| 2014 | 746 | 1,065 |
| 2015 | 2,450 | 4,174 |
| 2016 | 339 | 716 |
| 2017 | 152 | 286 |
| 2018 | 624 | 853 |
| 2019 | 1,040 | 2,057 |
| 2020 | 194 | 475 |
| 2021 | 154 | 242 |
| 2022 | 113 | 270 |
| 2023 | 462 | 1,081 |
| 2024 | 187 | 283 |
| 2025 | 115 | 268 |
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 Maluku324 km
- Gorontalo355 km
- Sarangani, Philippines389 km
- Davao del Sur, Philippines389 km
- General Santos, Philippines389 km
- South Cotabato, Philippines393 km