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Wildfires in Indonesia

1,854 fires over 1,500 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 9,493,409 hectares burned across 205 regencies.

Only fires of 1,500 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the entry totals, but they are in the GWIS yearly series.

These figures leave out 15 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

The season, week by week

Copernicus GWIS

Indonesia, at this point in the year: 8,244,638 hectares, 2.6 times the 2012–2025 average.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–20251,901,640 ha

Worst year2019 6,269,736 ha

With a page here1,854 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	30,090	8,290,324	GWIS
2025	4,618	793,401	GWIS
2024	5,431	972,804	GWIS
2023	16,878	3,558,059	GWIS
2022	3,858	586,551	GWIS
2021	4,081	615,363	GWIS
2020	5,231	903,900	GWIS
2019	23,873	6,269,736	GWIS
2018	16,416	2,931,353	GWIS
2017	5,736	969,063	GWIS
2016	7,643	1,416,175	GWIS
2015	52,348	14,111,468	GWIS
2014	33,742	8,321,595	GWIS
2013	16,108	3,657,395	GWIS
2012	23,021	4,876,277	GWIS

National estimates from Copernicus GWIS, rebuilt from heat detections since 2012.

Hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS by the fire’s starting month, and the largest fire of each year.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Σ	Largest of the year
2026	15k	9k	29k		2k		1,014k	2,870k	2,116k	436k			6,491,020	Pulang Pisau 269,780 ha
2025	2k					2k	34k		98k	13k			150,048	Sekadau 20,686 ha
2024							10k	11k	9k	4k	3k		35,933	Muaro Jambi 5,308 ha
2023			2k				6k	77k	203k	138k	21k		446,243	Seruyan 15,275 ha
2022			17k					4k					20,945	Pesisir Selatan 5,718 ha
2021		15k	4k				4k			3k			25,614	Kubu Raya 9,209 ha
2020		7k	12k					25k	4k				48,147	Natuna 8,883 ha
2019		18k	27k	6k	4k		123k	478k	655k	329k	125k	2k	1,766,523	Muaro Jambi 80,598 ha
2018		3k	2k				6k	137k	110k	94k			352,372	Rokan Hilir 16,847 ha
2017							4k	2k	9k		2k	2k	19,714	Bima 2,403 ha
2016	43k	10k	18k					58k	4k	4k			136,850	Rokan Hilir 21,780 ha