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Wildfires in West Java
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 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 9,000 km² of West Java at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 1,310 km², ranking 20th 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 2019, with 2,910 km² detected; the quietest was 2016, with 302 km². The 2021–2025 average is 38% 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 13 September 2023, with detections in 97 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 9,000 km² with at least one detection, 23% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 5,200 | 58% |
| 2 years | 1,760 | 20% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1,510 | 17% |
| 6 to 10 years | 469 | 5.2% |
| 11 years or more | 53 | 0.6% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -6.75, 108.25 and holds 21% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 2,160 | 3,150 |
| 2013 | 903 | 1,658 |
| 2014 | 1,280 | 1,905 |
| 2015 | 2,660 | 3,380 |
| 2016 | 302 | 489 |
| 2017 | 1,090 | 1,259 |
| 2018 | 1,860 | 2,363 |
| 2019 | 2,910 | 3,469 |
| 2020 | 650 | 821 |
| 2021 | 556 | 968 |
| 2022 | 343 | 668 |
| 2023 | 2,180 | 2,739 |
| 2024 | 1,020 | 1,436 |
| 2025 | 390 | 576 |
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
- Banten281 km
- Central Java335 km
- Lampung433 km
- Bangka Belitung Islands496 km
- South Sumatra511 km
- East Java523 km