Burned area
satellite only2,141ha
Perimeter published by GWIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- 11 Aug 2019 – 18 Aug 2019
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ID · Indonesia · –
Ketapang fire, 11 August 2019 Ketapang
Out · last measured on 18 Aug 2019
The fire started on 11 August 2019 in Ketapang, Indonesia, and satellites saw it burning for 8 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,141 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 69th largest in West Kalimantan since 2016 (of 129 with a page). Number 262 in Indonesia in 2019, of 409.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only8days
11 Aug 2019 to 18 Aug 2019: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 11 Aug 2019 – 18 Aug 2019
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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 only11 Aug 2019
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 11 Aug 2019
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Danger at the start
model21.2FWI · moderate
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 8.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 11 Aug 2019, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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This is an index computed from weather model data, not a measurement of the fire nor an official warning. Danger warnings are issued by each country’s authority. Emergency number and official warnings
Weather during the fire
model35.6°C · 43% RH
High of 35.6 °C and minimum humidity of 43% on 13 August 2019; gusts of 41 km/h on 18 August 2019.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 11 Aug 2019 – 18 Aug 2019
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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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≈ 40people
Estimated residents inside the perimeter and 0.22 ha of built-up area (100 m grid, epoch 2020).
- 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 GHSLPopulation and built-up area computed
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· reconstructed weatherWeather and FWI computed from the ERA5 reanalysis
What was saved on 24 October 2026
Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
- Area
- 2,141 ha
- Dates
- 11 Aug 2019 – 18 Aug 2019
- Name
- Ketapang
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/ketapang-2019-08-3?v=2026-10-24A 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.
Citation
A lede of about 60 words figures only, no adjectives
CSV for this fire ketapang-2019-08-3.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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-08-11 | 0 | 0 | 34.9 | 22.8 | 42 | 12.1 | 33.8 | 0 | 21.2 | moderado | 1 |
| 2019-08-12 | 0 | 0 | 35.2 | 24 | 41 | 13.9 | 32.8 | 0 | 22.9 | alto | 1 |
| 2019-08-13 | 0 | 0 | 35.6 | 23.7 | 43 | 14.9 | 36.4 | 0 | 24.2 | alto | 1 |
| 2019-08-14 | 0 | 0 | 33.8 | 24 | 51 | 14 | 34.2 | 0.4 | 21.7 | alto | 1 |
| 2019-08-15 | 0 | 0 | 33.3 | 24.7 | 49 | 12.6 | 33.8 | 0.2 | 21.4 | alto | 1 |
| 2019-08-16 | 0 | 0 | 35.5 | 24.4 | 39 | 13.8 | 37.1 | 0 | 24 | alto | 1 |
| 2019-08-17 | 0 | 0 | 34.1 | 22.9 | 43 | 13.8 | 36 | 0 | 24.5 | alto | 1 |
| 2019-08-18 | 0 | 0 | 33.4 | 23.1 | 45 | 16.5 | 41 | 0 | 26.8 | alto | 1 |
| 2019-08-19 | 0 | 0 | 30.8 | 24.5 | 61 | 11.7 | 28.4 | 14.2 | 1.5 | muy_bajo | 0 |
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We have the GWIS perimeter for this fire, but the VIIRS sensors did not capture it in enough detail: no day-by-day evolution, but the split by municipality is there.
- Burnt area
- 2,141ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 8days
- 11 Aug 2019 – 18 Aug 2019
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- regencies
- Started on
- 11 Aug
- 2019
- Danger at start
- 21
- Moderate · FWI index
Where it burned
The weather it burned in
36°high
41km/h · peak gust
39%lowest humidity
It had gone 8 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 14.2 mm on 19 Aug.
This area had burned before
52% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,620 ha in 2018. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 1,113 ha that had burned before.
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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Ketapang where it started2,156 ha0.1 %
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 2020Built-up area0.22 ha
Residents≈ 40
Inside the perimeter there were about 0.22 hectares of built-up land and about 40 residents (GHSL 2020, 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.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Aug | 34.9 °C | 42 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 12 Aug | 35.2 °C | 41 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 13 Aug | 35.6 °C | 43 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 14 Aug | 33.8 °C | 51 % | 34 km/h | 0.4 mm | High 22 |
| 15 Aug | 33.3 °C | 49 % | 34 km/h | 0.2 mm | High 21 |
| 16 Aug | 35.5 °C | 39 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 17 Aug | 34.1 °C | 43 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 18 Aug | 33.4 °C | 45 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 19 Aug after | 30.8 °C | 61 % | 28 km/h | 14.2 mm | Very low 2 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 21.2, a minimum humidity of 42% and 8 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2018: 20.
FWI at the start
21.2
Minimum humidity
42 %
Days without rain
8
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Ketapang fire, 11 August 2019
2,141 ha
8 days
FWI 21.2
Min. humidity 42 %
Ketapang fire, August 2018
3,578 ha
10 days
FWI 16.4
Min. humidity 42 %
7 km away, in 2018
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 15.0 mm on 25 Aug.
Ketapang fire, September 2019
1,527 ha
13 days
FWI 19.9
Min. humidity 44 %
66 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 3.9 mm on 23 Sept.
Ketapang fire, August 2018
3,648 ha
13 days
FWI 16.4
Min. humidity 43 %
26 km away, in 2018
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 6.3 mm on 1 Sept.
Ketapang fire, September 2019
2,749 ha
10 days
FWI 17.1
Min. humidity 42 %
64 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.0 mm on 21 Sept.
Sukamara fire, September 2019
1,821 ha
2 days
FWI 18.9
Min. humidity 45 %
163 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.0 mm on 20 Sept.
What happened to them
- 11 days
- median duration
- 2,604 ha
- median area
- 100 %
- went past 1,000 ha
- 6.0 mm
- rain at the end (median; 19 of 20 had it)
It burned an area similar to its twins (2,141 ha against a median of 2,604 ha) and lasted 8 days, against 11 days.
In 1 of 20, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 6.0 mm.
This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it
How it ended
14.2 mmfirst rain
19 Augthe day after it ended
41km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 18 Aug, and on 19 Aug 14.2 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out. Twins with rain when they ended: 19 of 20, with a median of 6.0 mm.
Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
How a twin is chosen
- Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2018.
- Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
- Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
- Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
- They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.
Before and after, from space
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Before · 4 Aug 2019
After · 25 Aug 2019
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Other fires nearby
- 6,093 haKetapang1 August 2019 · 24 days · 17 km away
- 131,352 haKetapang25 July 2026 · 72 days · 18 km away
- 14,990 haKetapang2 September 2019 · 27 days · 20 km away
- 106,383 haKetapang11 July 2026 · 109 days · 21 km away
- 10,428 haKetapang2 September 2019 · 25 days · 24 km away
- 6,418 haKetapang10 September 2026 · 17 days · 26 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Ketapang fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 11 August 2019 and 18 August 2019: 8 days between the first and last heat detection of the perimeter.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 2,141 hectares (21.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Ketapang (2,156 ha, 0.1 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 35.6 °C, humidity dropped to 39 % and gusts hit 41 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 27, class 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.
- How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
- Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2018 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 20. Their median duration was 11 days and their median area 2,604 ha; 100 % went past 1,000 ha. In 1 of 20, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 6.0 mm.
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 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
No changes since 24 October 2026.
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.
- Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. No 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 2020, 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.