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Wildfires in West Sumatra
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 08:31 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 8,920 km² of West Sumatra at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 1,240 km², ranking 22nd 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 2012, with 2,070 km² detected; the quietest was 2020, with 662 km². The 2021–2025 average is 36% 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.
June, July and August together hold 38% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 1 February 2018, with detections in 125 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 8,920 km² with at least one detection, 22% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 5,020 | 56% |
| 2 years | 1,930 | 22% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1,590 | 18% |
| 6 to 10 years | 349 | 3.9% |
| 11 years or more | 24 | 0.3% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -2.25, 100.75 and holds 19% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 2,070 | 3,409 |
| 2013 | 1,560 | 1,890 |
| 2014 | 1,570 | 1,841 |
| 2015 | 1,710 | 2,516 |
| 2016 | 1,300 | 1,380 |
| 2017 | 1,270 | 1,442 |
| 2018 | 1,080 | 1,275 |
| 2019 | 882 | 1,179 |
| 2020 | 662 | 661 |
| 2021 | 689 | 754 |
| 2022 | 1,270 | 2,063 |
| 2023 | 929 | 1,632 |
| 2024 | 818 | 952 |
| 2025 | 1,540 | 1,813 |
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
- Bengkulu200 km
- Jambi404 km
- North Sumatra404 km
- Riau448 km
- South Sumatra512 km
- Melaka, Malaysia527 km