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Bangka Selatan fire, 24 August 2026 Bangka Selatan

Out · last detection 24 Oct 2026, 06:31 UTC

The fire started on 24 August 2026 in Bangka Selatan, Indonesia, and satellites saw it burning for 62 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 7,640 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

This page is probably a fire complex, not a single fire. GWIS merges into one perimeter the fires that touch over weeks, which in large burning seasons can join dozens of separate fires. The total area is reliable; the origin and dates refer to the whole complex.

Other fire pages in the same area and on the same dates:

Number 101 in Indonesia in 2026, of 981.

GWIS near-real-time perimeter, from the layer that changed in October 2025: this fire is not compared with fires from earlier years, because since then the GWIS layer gives more and larger perimeters.

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Burnt area
7,640ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
62days
24 Aug 2026 – 24 Oct 2026
Municipalities hit
1
regencies
Started on
24 Aug
2026
Heat detections
377
in a single hotspot: 42 MW
Danger at start
40
Very high · FWI index
Average daily power
47MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 24 Aug24 Oct
24 Oct 2026

How it evolved, day by day

24 Aug 2026 · 26 MW · 5 25 Aug 2026 · 8 MW · 2 26 Aug 2026 · 4 MW · 1 28 Aug 2026 · 5 MW · 1 29 Aug 2026 · 6 MW · 1 30 Aug 2026 · 37 MW · 8 31 Aug 2026 · 3 MW · 1 2 Sept 2026 · 43 MW · 5 3 Sept 2026 · 112 MW · 21 4 Sept 2026 · 69 MW · 12 5 Sept 2026 · 128 MW · 13 6 Sept 2026 · 42 MW · 4 7 Sept 2026 · 91 MW · 9 8 Sept 2026 · 19 MW · 5 9 Sept 2026 · 109 MW · 18 10 Sept 2026 · 84 MW · 14 11 Sept 2026 · 33 MW · 7 12 Sept 2026 · 111 MW · 13 13 Sept 2026 · 26 MW · 4 14 Sept 2026 · 119 MW · 17 15 Sept 2026 · 39 MW · 8 16 Sept 2026 · 47 MW · 3 17 Sept 2026 · 107 MW · 8 19 Sept 2026 · 44 MW · 11 20 Sept 2026 · 105 MW · 9 21 Sept 2026 · 86 MW · 16 22 Sept 2026 · 6 MW · 1 23 Sept 2026 · 7 MW · 4 24 Sept 2026 · 14 MW · 3 27 Sept 2026 · 11 MW · 1 28 Sept 2026 · 61 MW · 10 30 Sept 2026 · 10 MW · 2 1 Oct 2026 · 44 MW · 8 2 Oct 2026 · 22 MW · 5 3 Oct 2026 · 37 MW · 5 4 Oct 2026 · 18 MW · 2 5 Oct 2026 · 7 MW · 3 6 Oct 2026 · 85 MW · 18 7 Oct 2026 · 4 MW · 1 8 Oct 2026 · 0 MW · 0 9 Oct 2026 · 3 MW · 2 10 Oct 2026 · 99 MW · 10 11 Oct 2026 · 149 MW · 17 12 Oct 2026 · 98 MW · 19 13 Oct 2026 · 4 MW · 2 14 Oct 2026 · 17 MW · 6 15 Oct 2026 · 28 MW · 6 16 Oct 2026 · 0 MW · 0 17 Oct 2026 · 13 MW · 3 18 Oct 2026 · 115 MW · 12 19 Oct 2026 · 61 MW · 7 20 Oct 2026 · 1 MW · 1 22 Oct 2026 · 5 MW · 1 23 Oct 2026 · 68 MW · 11 24 Oct 2026 · 6 MW · 1
24 Aug 6 Sept 17 Sept 2 Oct 11 Oct

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

33°high
45km/h · peak gust
49%lowest humidity

It had gone 31 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.3 mm on 25 Oct.

This area had burned before

38% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 2,496 ha in 2019, 1,599 ha in 2023. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 2,918 ha that had burned before.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 4.8% of the area of London (76 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

  1. Bangka Selatan where it started
    9,123 ha reached on 24 Aug
    2.4 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

People and buildings inside the perimeter

GHSL 2025
Built-up area0.24 ha
Residents≈ 40

Inside the perimeter there were about 0.24 hectares of built-up land and about 40 residents (GHSL 2025, satellite-based estimate).

This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.

Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu

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)
24 Aug 30.7 °C 57 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
25 Aug 31.0 °C 56 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
26 Aug 30.9 °C 53 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
27 Aug 31.3 °C 54 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
28 Aug 30.8 °C 61 % 39 km/h 0.1 mm High 34
29 Aug 30.6 °C 59 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
30 Aug 30.9 °C 58 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
31 Aug 31.4 °C 59 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
1 Sept 31.7 °C 55 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
2 Sept 31.6 °C 52 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
3 Sept 30.8 °C 55 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
4 Sept 31.0 °C 56 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
5 Sept 30.6 °C 61 % 42 km/h 0.3 mm Very high 40
6 Sept 30.3 °C 58 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
7 Sept 30.8 °C 59 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
8 Sept 30.5 °C 61 % 36 km/h 0.4 mm High 34
9 Sept 31.0 °C 60 % 36 km/h 0.1 mm High 38
10 Sept 31.1 °C 59 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
11 Sept 31.0 °C 59 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
12 Sept 31.7 °C 57 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
13 Sept 30.6 °C 62 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
14 Sept 30.8 °C 60 % 45 km/h 0.3 mm Very high 42
15 Sept 31.1 °C 56 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
16 Sept 31.4 °C 54 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
17 Sept 30.8 °C 60 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
18 Sept 31.3 °C 56 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
19 Sept 31.6 °C 59 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
20 Sept 31.5 °C 61 % 40 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 39
21 Sept 31.6 °C 59 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
22 Sept 31.4 °C 61 % 34 km/h 0.2 mm High 35
23 Sept 31.5 °C 63 % 38 km/h 0.4 mm High 35
24 Sept 31.9 °C 57 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
25 Sept 31.7 °C 59 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
26 Sept 32.1 °C 55 % 33 km/h 0.1 mm High 30
27 Sept 31.4 °C 58 % 35 km/h 0.3 mm High 32
28 Sept 31.3 °C 56 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
29 Sept 32.1 °C 56 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
30 Sept 31.4 °C 60 % 31 km/h 0.1 mm High 29
1 Oct 32.7 °C 51 % 32 km/h 0.2 mm High 32
2 Oct 32.3 °C 52 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
3 Oct 32.4 °C 49 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
4 Oct 31.5 °C 56 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
5 Oct 32.0 °C 53 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
6 Oct 32.2 °C 51 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
7 Oct 31.6 °C 57 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
8 Oct 31.2 °C 57 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
9 Oct 32.1 °C 52 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
10 Oct 32.3 °C 53 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
11 Oct 32.1 °C 54 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
12 Oct 32.0 °C 54 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
13 Oct 32.6 °C 51 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
14 Oct 32.3 °C 54 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
15 Oct 31.4 °C 58 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
16 Oct 31.0 °C 67 % 32 km/h 2.0 mm High 31
17 Oct 31.5 °C 56 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
18 Oct 32.3 °C 56 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
19 Oct 31.9 °C 58 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
20 Oct 31.8 °C 57 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
21 Oct 32.7 °C 50 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
22 Oct 33.0 °C 51 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
23 Oct 32.1 °C 61 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
24 Oct 32.2 °C 63 % 35 km/h 1.4 mm High 35
25 Oct after 30.4 °C 68 % 30 km/h 1.3 mm Moderate 16

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 17 Aug 2026
After · 31 Oct 2026

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 · Copernicus

On 26 September 2026 the air beside the fire reached 100 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 53: 3.5 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak100 µg/m³
Days over the guideline29 days
PM10103 µg/m³
Optical depth2.18
28 Aug5 Sept13 Sept21 Sept29 Sept
Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

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 · 377Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
Date and timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Bangka Selatan fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 24 August 2026 to 24 October 2026 (62 days). The perimeter dates it from 26 August 2026 to 23 October 2026.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 7,640 hectares (76.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Bangka Selatan (9,123 ha, 2.4 %).
Is the Bangka Selatan fire still active?
No fire detections since 24 Oct 2026, 06:31 UTC. A lack of detections is not an official extinction.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 33.0 °C, humidity dropped to 49 % and gusts hit 45 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 42, class Very high.
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 · Emergency number and official warnings

Satellite cross-check

History of this page · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
  1. Area: 9,062 → 7,640 ha.

RSS Changes to this page With cross-checks and a citable version

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery; 3 polygons grouped in this page.
  • Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 26 August 2026 to 23 October 2026. 377 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • We have not matched this page with any official record.
  • Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
  • Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.

How we build fire pages: methodology

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.