Alor fire, 2 October 2026 Alor
Satellites first detected fire on 2 October 2026 in Alor, Indonesia. It has been active for 17 days, with 177 heat detections and an area with fire of about 2,254 hectares rebuilt from them, spread across a single municipality.
GWIS (Copernicus) has not yet published the perimeter of this fire. It rebuilds it from hotspots, which can take several days, and it does not always arrive. For now the area is the one rebuilt from heat detections (about 14 hectares per pixel). If the perimeter arrives, this page picks it up on its own and keeps the same address.
- Area with fire
- ≈ 2,254ha
- rebuilt from hotspots, no official perimeter yet
- Duration
- 17days
- 2 Oct 2026 – 18 Oct 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- regencies
- Started on
- 2 Oct
- 2026
- Heat detections
- 177
- in a single hotspot: 65 MW
- Danger at start
- 13
- Moderate · FWI index
- Energy released
- 1.7GW
- sum of detected power
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 56 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
What happened to each town
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Alor where it started2,226 ha reached on 2 Oct0.8 %
Area with fire inside each municipality, rebuilt from heat detections (about 14 hectares per VIIRS pixel). An estimate until the official perimeter arrives. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
The weather day by day
ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.
Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
| Day | High | Min. humidity | Peak gust | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Oct | 26.9 °C | 69 % | 23 km/h | 0.2 mm | Moderate 13 |
| 3 Oct | 28.9 °C | 69 % | 20 km/h | 0.1 mm | Moderate 14 |
| 4 Oct | 27.4 °C | 75 % | 22 km/h | 1.5 mm | Low 6 |
| 5 Oct | 27.6 °C | 72 % | 28 km/h | 0.2 mm | Low 10 |
| 6 Oct | 28.1 °C | 71 % | 23 km/h | 0.7 mm | Low 10 |
| 7 Oct | 28.1 °C | 71 % | 22 km/h | 0.2 mm | Low 11 |
| 8 Oct | 27.6 °C | 73 % | 20 km/h | 2.1 mm | Very low 5 |
| 9 Oct | 28.2 °C | 72 % | 16 km/h | 0.1 mm | Low 6 |
| 10 Oct | 26.8 °C | 78 % | 20 km/h | 0.2 mm | Low 8 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.
The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 9 October 2026 the air beside the fire reached 48 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 39: 2.6 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.
Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)
Detections table · 177Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Alor fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite, it burned from 2 October 2026 to 18 October 2026 (17 days between the first and the last detection). There is no perimeter yet to date it.
- How much area did it burn?
- There is no perimeter yet. Heat detections rebuild about 2,254 hectares with fire (22.5 km²), a rough figure; GWIS will give its own when it publishes the perimeter, which can take several days.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Alor (2,226 ha, 0.8 %).
- Is the Alor fire still active?
- No fire detections since 19 Oct 2026, 06:01 UTC. A lack of detections is not an official extinction.
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 28.9 °C, humidity dropped to 69 % and gusts hit 28 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 14, class Moderate.
- Where does this data come from?
- From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Indonesia (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.
Where to verify it
A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.
Emergency number: 112
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Where this data comes from
The perimeter comes from the Copernicus Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS), which rebuilds it from MODIS and VIIRS heat detections and publishes it under CC BY 4.0. It is not measured on imagery as in Europe, so it is an estimate. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM2 (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ from each country’s official figure.