Burned area
satellite only34,667ha
Union of 5 GWIS (Copernicus) perimeters: overlapping areas count once.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- 23 Aug 2026 – 5 Nov 2026
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ID · Indonesia · –
Banyu Asin fire, 23 August 2026 Banyu Asin, Muaro Jambi, Tanjung Jabung Timur
Out · last detection 6 Nov 2026, 18:30 UTC
The fire started on 23 August 2026 in Banyu Asin, Indonesia, and satellites saw it burning for 75 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 34,667 hectares from heat detections, spread across 3 municipalities.
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:
We are reviewing this page: some of its data look inconsistent (the place, the dates or the area), so treat them with caution.
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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Duration by satellite
satellite only75days
23 Aug 2026 to 5 Nov 2026: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 6 Nov 2026, 18:30 UTC
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Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
Start
satellite only23 Aug 2026
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 23 Aug 2026
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Hotspots
satellite only2,530
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 166 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP + NOAA-20)
- Date
- 23 Aug 2026 – 5 Nov 2026
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There is no official record to compare with. Each hotspot is a pixel detected in one satellite pass, not a separate fire.
The worst day
satellite only1,448MW
Total radiative power on 4 September 2026; hotspots that day: 119.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 4 Sept 2026
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Fire radiative power (FRP) measures the energy the fire gives off when the satellite passes. Added up by day, it compares intensity, not area.
Weather during the fire
model35.8°C · 35% RH
High of 35.8 °C and minimum humidity of 35% on 27 September 2026; gusts of 36 km/h on 13 September 2026.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 23 Aug 2026 – 5 Nov 2026
- Model
- ECMWF IFS 0,25° · Open-Meteo.com · provisional
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These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
Living inside
model≈ 30people
Estimated residents inside the perimeter and 0.30 ha of built-up area (100 m grid, epoch 2025).
- Source
- GHSL R2023A · JRC
- Date
- calculated on 24 October 2026
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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.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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· reconstructed weatherWeather and FWI computed from the forecast (provisional until ERA5 arrives)
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logLast day with fire: 29 October 2026 → 5 November 2026.
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logArea: 47,626 → 34,667 ha.
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logLast day with fire: 23 October 2026 → 29 October 2026.
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· reconstructed GHSLPopulation and built-up area computed
Area logged each night
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/banyu-asin-2026-08-2?v=2026-11-08A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
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CSV for this fire banyu-asin-2026-08-2.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-23 | 0 | 0 | 33.6 | 22.3 | 46 | 12.3 | 30.6 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 2026-08-24 | 0 | 0 | 33.4 | 23.5 | 46 | 13.1 | 32.4 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 2026-08-25 | 3 | 12 | 33 | 24.2 | 51 | 12.3 | 31.3 | 0.3 | 1 | ||
| 2026-08-26 | 29 | 764 | 32.5 | 24.1 | 46 | 11.5 | 29.9 | 0.4 | 1 | ||
| 2026-08-27 | 52 | 1,023 | 34.1 | 23.8 | 36 | 11.2 | 29.9 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 2026-08-28 | 7 | 21 | 33.9 | 24 | 42 | 11.5 | 28.1 | 0.2 | 1 | ||
| 2026-08-29 | 13 | 43 | 33.5 | 24.6 | 54 | 12.6 | 32 | 0.8 | 1 | ||
| 2026-08-30 | 6 | 20 | 32.3 | 24.6 | 60 | 8.6 | 23.8 | 1.2 | 1 | ||
| 2026-08-31 | 10 | 58 | 32.9 | 24.3 | 56 | 9.2 | 24.8 | 1.7 | 1 | ||
| 2026-09-01 | 21 | 71 | 34.1 | 24.9 | 48 | 13.5 | 32.4 | 0.7 | 1 | ||
| 2026-09-02 | 55 | 736 | 34.4 | 23.4 | 46 | 12.8 | 32.4 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 2026-09-03 | 76 | 1,088 | 33.8 | 22.7 | 43 | 13.8 | 32.4 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 2026-09-04 | 119 | 1,448 | 33.9 | 22.6 | 42 | 12.6 | 30.2 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 2026-09-05 | 81 | 629 | 33.7 | 23.3 | 45 | 13.4 | 34.6 | 0.2 | 1 | ||
| 2026-09-06 | 84 | 330 | 33.4 | 23.1 | 43 | 12.1 | 29.2 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 2026-09-07 | 45 | 115 | 33.3 | 24.2 | 44 | 13.1 | 30.6 | 0.1 | 1 | ||
| 2026-09-08 | 28 | 131 | 33.7 | 23.6 | 48 | 11.2 | 23 | 0.9 | 1 | ||
| 2026-09-09 | 12 | 52 | 33.3 | 24.6 | 50 | 12.3 | 31.7 | 1.4 | 1 | ||
| 2026-09-10 | 1 | 24 | 33.4 | 24.4 | 49 | 11.2 | 28.1 | 1.2 | 1 | ||
| 2026-09-11 | 9 | 20 | 33.8 | 24.8 | 51 | 10.7 | 28.4 | 1.3 | 1 | ||
| 2026-09-12 | 29 | 167 | 34.2 | 24.2 | 40 | 14.7 | 35.3 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 2026-09-13 | 35 | 185 | 33.3 | 24.3 | 45 | 15.6 | 36 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 2026-09-14 | 36 | 417 | 33.8 | 24.8 | 45 | 14.3 | 35.3 | 0.2 | 1 | ||
| 2026-09-15 | 63 | 362 | 33.8 | 22.4 | 39 | 13.3 | 31.3 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 2026-09-16 | 41 | 534 | 34.2 | 23.8 | 42 | 12 | 27.7 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 2026-09-17 | 47 | 201 | 33.8 | 24.3 | 43 | 10.9 | 19.8 | 0.4 | 1 | ||
| 2026-09-18 | 21 | 131 | 33 | 24.6 | 45 | 9.9 | 25.2 | 0.3 | 1 | ||
| 2026-09-19 | 29 | 257 | 34.2 | 25.1 | 46 | 10.2 | 25.6 | 2.7 | 1 | ||
| 2026-09-20 | 62 | 615 | 34.1 | 23.9 | 48 | 10 | 25.2 | 1.4 | 1 | ||
| 2026-09-21 | 15 | 104 | 33.7 | 24.1 | 46 | 9.8 | 24.5 | 1.4 | 1 | ||
| 2026-09-22 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 25 | 52 | 8.1 | 22.7 | 5.1 | 1 | ||
| 2026-09-23 | 5 | 9 | 34 | 23.8 | 54 | 8.9 | 24.8 | 7.2 | 1 | ||
| 2026-09-24 | 0 | 0 | 32.3 | 24.7 | 63 | 9.2 | 23 | 2.5 | 1 | ||
| 2026-09-25 | 4 | 12 | 34.2 | 24.6 | 49 | 9.4 | 27 | 1.4 | 1 | ||
| 2026-09-26 | 6 | 66 | 34.8 | 25.7 | 41 | 11.9 | 29.2 | 1.4 | 1 | ||
| 2026-09-27 | 0 | 0 | 35.8 | 25.4 | 35 | 14.9 | 34.2 | 0.3 | 1 | ||
| 2026-09-28 | 21 | 37 | 35.1 | 24.7 | 43 | 12.9 | 32 | 0.6 | 1 | ||
| 2026-09-29 | 45 | 199 | 33.4 | 24.9 | 48 | 11.2 | 26.3 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 2026-09-30 | 0 | 0 | 32.5 | 24.4 | 64 | 9.4 | 21.2 | 4.3 | 1 | ||
| 2026-10-01 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 24.3 | 53 | 10.9 | 23.8 | 5.6 | 1 | ||
| 2026-10-02 | 6 | 23 | 34.1 | 24.1 | 46 | 8.9 | 26.3 | 0.6 | 1 | ||
| 2026-10-03 | 32 | 78 | 34.9 | 24.5 | 40 | 10 | 29.5 | 0.5 | 1 | ||
| 2026-10-04 | 22 | 72 | 34 | 24 | 44 | 9.8 | 24.8 | 0.8 | 1 | ||
| 2026-10-05 | 22 | 77 | 34.6 | 23.8 | 40 | 12.5 | 28.8 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 2026-10-06 | 87 | 657 | 34.1 | 24.2 | 44 | 10.9 | 24.8 | 0.3 | 1 | ||
| 2026-10-07 | 66 | 1,234 | 34.4 | 23.8 | 41 | 11 | 28.8 | 0.1 | 1 | ||
| 2026-10-08 | 66 | 441 | 33.7 | 23.9 | 47 | 11.3 | 24.5 | 0.2 | 1 | ||
| 2026-10-09 | 42 | 112 | 33 | 25 | 58 | 10.9 | 23.8 | 1.8 | 1 | ||
| 2026-10-10 | 10 | 60 | 33.6 | 24.4 | 53 | 7.5 | 21.6 | 2.7 | 1 | ||
| 2026-10-11 | 28 | 170 | 32.1 | 23.1 | 64 | 8.6 | 21.6 | 5.2 | 1 | ||
| 2026-10-12 | 54 | 796 | 33.9 | 24.7 | 46 | 15 | 32.8 | 0.7 | 1 | ||
| 2026-10-13 | 49 | 137 | 33.6 | 25.6 | 47 | 13 | 31 | 0.4 | 1 | ||
| 2026-10-14 | 213 | 1,095 | 33.8 | 24.9 | 43 | 14.4 | 31.3 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 2026-10-15 | 48 | 342 | 33.8 | 24.3 | 44 | 11.2 | 28.4 | 0.1 | 1 | ||
| 2026-10-16 | 6 | 11 | 33.9 | 24.4 | 49 | 9.7 | 24.1 | 0.2 | 1 | ||
| 2026-10-17 | 22 | 76 | 33.3 | 25 | 47 | 12.6 | 32 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 2026-10-18 | 28 | 618 | 33.7 | 24.5 | 45 | 15.1 | 33.8 | 0.2 | 1 | ||
| 2026-10-19 | 96 | 755 | 34 | 25.2 | 43 | 14.5 | 33.8 | 0.1 | 1 | ||
| 2026-10-20 | 166 | 707 | 33.8 | 25.6 | 47 | 12.1 | 27.4 | 0.3 | 1 | ||
| 2026-10-21 | 63 | 667 | 33 | 25.5 | 54 | 12.1 | 29.9 | 4.4 | 1 | ||
| 2026-10-22 | 179 | 1,179 | 33.8 | 25.3 | 44 | 14.5 | 34.2 | 0.3 | 1 | ||
| 2026-10-23 | 77 | 265 | 34.2 | 25.2 | 46 | 10.3 | 24.5 | 0.3 | 1 | ||
| 2026-10-24 | 0 | 0 | 34.6 | 25.6 | 46 | 9.4 | 24.8 | 1.2 | 1 | ||
| 2026-10-25 | 0 | 0 | 30.4 | 23.3 | 68 | 5.9 | 15.8 | 11.4 | 1 | ||
| 2026-10-26 | 4 | 4 | 29.8 | 24.5 | 69 | 8.2 | 18 | 0.6 | 1 | ||
| 2026-10-27 | 0 | 0 | 32.2 | 24.7 | 62 | 10 | 24.1 | 4.6 | 1 | ||
| 2026-10-28 | 0 | 0 | 29.6 | 23.6 | 87 | 7.4 | 20.5 | 15.6 | 1 | ||
| 2026-10-29 | 0 | 0 | 30.3 | 23.7 | 72 | 6.9 | 18.7 | 6.9 | 1 | ||
| 2026-10-30 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 22.9 | 61 | 7.6 | 21.6 | 2.6 | 1 | ||
| 2026-10-31 | 0 | 0 | 33.5 | 24.6 | 48 | 10.7 | 27 | 0.2 | 1 | ||
| 2026-11-01 | 1 | 7 | 31.5 | 24.3 | 61 | 10.4 | 26.6 | 9.7 | 1 | ||
| 2026-11-02 | 0 | 0 | 32.2 | 24 | 57 | 11.2 | 28.4 | 0.4 | 1 | ||
| 2026-11-03 | 27 | 167 | 32.6 | 24.6 | 55 | 10.9 | 26.6 | 1.4 | 1 | ||
| 2026-11-04 | 0 | 0 | 31.6 | 24.4 | 79 | 6.5 | 22.7 | 5.3 | 1 | ||
| 2026-11-05 | 3 | 3 | 30 | 23.4 | 89 | 6.5 | 22.3 | 21.3 | 1 | ||
| 2026-11-06 | 3 | 4 | 31.5 | 23.9 | 65 | 6.6 | 19.8 | 2.3 | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 34,667ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 75days
- 23 Aug 2026 – 5 Nov 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 3
- regencies
- Started on
- 23 Aug
- 2026
- Heat detections
- 2,530
- in a single hotspot: 166 MW
- Average daily power
- 327MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
23 Aug5 Nov
6 Nov 2026
How it evolved, day by day
25 Aug
4 Sept
20 Sept
8 Oct
21 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
36°high
36km/h · peak gust
35%lowest humidity
It had gone 5 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.3 mm on 6 Nov.
This area had burned before
43% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 705 ha in 2018, 25,877 ha in 2019. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 15,011 ha that had burned before.
- 15,500 ha Banyu Asin fire, August 2019 18,423 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 3,610 ha Banyu Asin fire, October 2019 6,864 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 2,391 ha Banyu Asin fire, October 2019 2,486 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Jakarta boundary: geoBoundaries · Badan Pusat Statistik (BPS - Statistics Indonesia), World Food Programme, OCHA ROAP (CC BY 3.0 IGO).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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Banyu Asin where it started40,834 ha reached on 25 Aug3.6 %
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5,564 ha reached on 11 Sept1.0 %
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1,530 ha reached on 14 Sept0.3 %
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 2025Built-up area0.30 ha
Residents≈ 30
Inside the perimeter there were about 0.30 hectares of built-up land and about 30 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) · forecast models, provisional until the ERA5 reanalysis arrives
| Day | High | Min. humidity | Peak gust | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Aug | 33.6 °C | 46 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 24 Aug | 33.4 °C | 46 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 25 Aug | 33.0 °C | 51 % | 31 km/h | 0.3 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 26 Aug | 32.5 °C | 46 % | 30 km/h | 0.4 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 27 Aug | 34.1 °C | 36 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 28 Aug | 33.9 °C | 42 % | 28 km/h | 0.2 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 29 Aug | 33.5 °C | 54 % | 32 km/h | 0.8 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 30 Aug | 32.3 °C | 60 % | 24 km/h | 1.2 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 31 Aug | 32.9 °C | 56 % | 25 km/h | 1.7 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 1 Sept | 34.1 °C | 48 % | 32 km/h | 0.7 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 2 Sept | 34.4 °C | 46 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 3 Sept | 33.8 °C | 43 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 4 Sept | 33.9 °C | 42 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 5 Sept | 33.7 °C | 45 % | 35 km/h | 0.2 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 6 Sept | 33.4 °C | 43 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 7 Sept | 33.3 °C | 44 % | 31 km/h | 0.1 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 8 Sept | 33.7 °C | 48 % | 23 km/h | 0.9 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 9 Sept | 33.3 °C | 50 % | 32 km/h | 1.4 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 10 Sept | 33.4 °C | 49 % | 28 km/h | 1.2 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 11 Sept | 33.8 °C | 51 % | 28 km/h | 1.3 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 12 Sept | 34.2 °C | 40 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 13 Sept | 33.3 °C | 45 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 14 Sept | 33.8 °C | 45 % | 35 km/h | 0.2 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 15 Sept | 33.8 °C | 39 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 16 Sept | 34.2 °C | 42 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 17 Sept | 33.8 °C | 43 % | 20 km/h | 0.4 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 18 Sept | 33.0 °C | 45 % | 25 km/h | 0.3 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 19 Sept | 34.2 °C | 46 % | 26 km/h | 2.7 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 20 Sept | 34.1 °C | 48 % | 25 km/h | 1.4 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 21 Sept | 33.7 °C | 46 % | 24 km/h | 1.4 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 22 Sept | 34.0 °C | 52 % | 23 km/h | 5.1 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 23 Sept | 34.0 °C | 54 % | 25 km/h | 7.2 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 24 Sept | 32.3 °C | 63 % | 23 km/h | 2.5 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 25 Sept | 34.2 °C | 49 % | 27 km/h | 1.4 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 26 Sept | 34.8 °C | 41 % | 29 km/h | 1.4 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 27 Sept | 35.8 °C | 35 % | 34 km/h | 0.3 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 28 Sept | 35.1 °C | 43 % | 32 km/h | 0.6 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 29 Sept | 33.4 °C | 48 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 30 Sept | 32.5 °C | 64 % | 21 km/h | 4.3 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 1 Oct | 33.0 °C | 53 % | 24 km/h | 5.6 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 2 Oct | 34.1 °C | 46 % | 26 km/h | 0.6 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 3 Oct | 34.9 °C | 40 % | 30 km/h | 0.5 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 4 Oct | 34.0 °C | 44 % | 25 km/h | 0.8 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 5 Oct | 34.6 °C | 40 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 6 Oct | 34.1 °C | 44 % | 25 km/h | 0.3 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 7 Oct | 34.4 °C | 41 % | 29 km/h | 0.1 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 8 Oct | 33.7 °C | 47 % | 24 km/h | 0.2 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 9 Oct | 33.0 °C | 58 % | 24 km/h | 1.8 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 10 Oct | 33.6 °C | 53 % | 22 km/h | 2.7 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 11 Oct | 32.1 °C | 64 % | 22 km/h | 5.2 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 12 Oct | 33.9 °C | 46 % | 33 km/h | 0.7 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 13 Oct | 33.6 °C | 47 % | 31 km/h | 0.4 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 14 Oct | 33.8 °C | 43 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 15 Oct | 33.8 °C | 44 % | 28 km/h | 0.1 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 16 Oct | 33.9 °C | 49 % | 24 km/h | 0.2 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 17 Oct | 33.3 °C | 47 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 18 Oct | 33.7 °C | 45 % | 34 km/h | 0.2 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 19 Oct | 34.0 °C | 43 % | 34 km/h | 0.1 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 20 Oct | 33.8 °C | 47 % | 27 km/h | 0.3 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 21 Oct | 33.0 °C | 54 % | 30 km/h | 4.4 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 22 Oct | 33.8 °C | 44 % | 34 km/h | 0.3 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 23 Oct | 34.2 °C | 46 % | 24 km/h | 0.3 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 24 Oct | 34.6 °C | 46 % | 25 km/h | 1.2 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 25 Oct | 30.4 °C | 68 % | 16 km/h | 11.4 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 26 Oct | 29.8 °C | 69 % | 18 km/h | 0.6 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 27 Oct | 32.2 °C | 62 % | 24 km/h | 4.6 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 28 Oct | 29.6 °C | 87 % | 20 km/h | 15.6 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 29 Oct | 30.3 °C | 72 % | 19 km/h | 6.9 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 30 Oct | 32.0 °C | 61 % | 22 km/h | 2.6 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 31 Oct | 33.5 °C | 48 % | 27 km/h | 0.2 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 1 Nov | 31.5 °C | 61 % | 27 km/h | 9.7 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 2 Nov | 32.2 °C | 57 % | 28 km/h | 0.4 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 3 Nov | 32.6 °C | 55 % | 27 km/h | 1.4 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 4 Nov | 31.6 °C | 79 % | 23 km/h | 5.3 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 5 Nov | 30.0 °C | 89 % | 22 km/h | 21.3 mm | fwi. 0 |
| 6 Nov after | 31.5 °C | 65 % | 20 km/h | 2.3 mm | fwi. 0 |
Before and after, from space
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Before · 16 Aug 2026
After · 12 Nov 2026
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 30 September 2026 the air beside the fire reached 350 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 232: 15 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak350 µg/m³
Days over the guideline42 days
PM10358 µg/m³
Optical depth6.88
WHO 15
21 Aug30 Aug8 Sept17 Sept26 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 · 2,530Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
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Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Banyu Asin fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 23 August 2026 to 5 November 2026 (75 days). The perimeter dates it from 23 August 2026 to 29 October 2026.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 34,667 hectares (346.7 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 3 municipalities: Banyu Asin (40,834 ha, 3.6 %); Muaro Jambi (5,564 ha, 1.0 %); Tanjung Jabung Timur (1,530 ha, 0.3 %).
- Is the Banyu Asin fire still active?
- No fire detections since 6 Nov 2026, 18:30 UTC. A lack of detections is not an official extinction.
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 35.8 °C, humidity dropped to 35 % and gusts hit 36 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 0, class Very low.
- 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 · 3 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
- Last day with fire: 29 October 2026 → 5 November 2026.
- Area: 47,626 → 34,667 ha.
- Last day with fire: 23 October 2026 → 29 October 2026.
RSS Changes to this page With cross-checks and a citable version
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This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery; 5 polygons grouped in this page.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 23 August 2026 to 29 October 2026. 2,530 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Weather: ECMWF IFS model, provisional until the ERA5 reanalysis arrives. No FWI: there are fewer than 30 days of data before the start.
- 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.
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.