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Wildfires in West Sulawesi
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 09:19 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 5,180 km² of West Sulawesi at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 734 km², ranking 25th 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 1,940 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 232 km². The 2021–2025 average is 58% 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 68% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 18 October 2015, with detections in 108 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 5,180 km² with at least one detection, 25% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 2,590 | 50% |
| 2 years | 1,300 | 25% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1,160 | 22% |
| 6 to 10 years | 135 | 2.6% |
| 11 years or more | 4.9 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -2.25, 119.25 and holds 28% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 917 | 923 |
| 2013 | 847 | 817 |
| 2014 | 1,350 | 1,407 |
| 2015 | 1,940 | 2,480 |
| 2016 | 337 | 293 |
| 2017 | 406 | 357 |
| 2018 | 794 | 743 |
| 2019 | 1,050 | 1,125 |
| 2020 | 353 | 303 |
| 2021 | 252 | 228 |
| 2022 | 232 | 199 |
| 2023 | 951 | 1,016 |
| 2024 | 434 | 389 |
| 2025 | 416 | 379 |
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
- South Sulawesi229 km
- East Kalimantan277 km
- Central Sulawesi299 km
- Southeast Sulawesi372 km
- South Kalimantan447 km
- Gorontalo512 km