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Wildfires in West Papua
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 06:20 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 3,890 km² of West Papua at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 432 km², ranking 29th 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 2,150 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 173 km². The 2021–2025 average is 66% 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 54% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 14 October 2015, with detections in 170 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 3,890 km² with at least one detection, 13% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 2,720 | 70% |
| 2 years | 672 | 17% |
| 3 to 5 years | 429 | 11% |
| 6 to 10 years | 58 | 1.5% |
| 11 years or more | 5.0 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -2.25, 133.25 and holds 15% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 256 | 326 |
| 2013 | 220 | 265 |
| 2014 | 556 | 679 |
| 2015 | 2,150 | 3,042 |
| 2016 | 243 | 320 |
| 2017 | 197 | 295 |
| 2018 | 306 | 411 |
| 2019 | 541 | 690 |
| 2020 | 419 | 591 |
| 2021 | 182 | 292 |
| 2022 | 260 | 370 |
| 2023 | 332 | 447 |
| 2024 | 207 | 290 |
| 2025 | 173 | 223 |
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
- Maluku650 km
- North Maluku724 km
- Sandaun, Papua New Guinea1,013 km
- Lautém, Timor-Leste1,019 km
- North Sulawesi1,048 km
- Viqueque, Timor-Leste1,059 km