Burned area
satellite only1,529ha
Perimeter published by GWIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- 22 Jul 2019 – 8 Aug 2019
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ID · Indonesia · –
Kotawaringin Timur fire, July 2019 Kotawaringin Timur, Seruyan
Out · last measured on 8 Aug 2019
The fire started on 22 July 2019 in Kotawaringin Timur, Indonesia, and satellites saw it burning for 18 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,529 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 150th largest in Central Kalimantan since 2016 (of 154 with a page). Number 399 in Indonesia in 2019, of 409.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only18days
22 Jul 2019 to 8 Aug 2019: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 22 Jul 2019 – 8 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 only22 Jul 2019
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 22 Jul 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
model9.9FWI · low
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 0.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 22 Jul 2019, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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Weather during the fire
model33.3°C · 48% RH
High of 33.3 °C and minimum humidity of 48% on 28 July 2019; gusts of 42 km/h on 2 August 2019.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 22 Jul 2019 – 8 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.
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- Area
- 1,529 ha
- Dates
- 22 Jul 2019 – 8 Aug 2019
- Name
- Kotawaringin Timur
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/kotawaringin-timur-2019-07?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.
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CSV for this fire kotawaringin-timur-2019-07.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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-07-22 | 0 | 0 | 32.2 | 24.7 | 54 | 14.3 | 34.9 | 0 | 9.9 | bajo | 1 |
| 2019-07-23 | 0 | 0 | 30.7 | 23.1 | 56 | 14.3 | 34.6 | 0 | 14.6 | moderado | 1 |
| 2019-07-24 | 0 | 0 | 30.3 | 22.9 | 59 | 15.3 | 34.2 | 0.1 | 14.8 | moderado | 1 |
| 2019-07-25 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 23.2 | 56 | 14 | 34.9 | 0 | 15.7 | moderado | 1 |
| 2019-07-26 | 0 | 0 | 32.3 | 24 | 51 | 12.7 | 28.8 | 0 | 15.3 | moderado | 1 |
| 2019-07-27 | 0 | 0 | 31.3 | 24.2 | 63 | 11.9 | 26.3 | 1 | 13.8 | moderado | 1 |
| 2019-07-28 | 0 | 0 | 33.3 | 24.1 | 48 | 16.1 | 36 | 0 | 18.7 | moderado | 1 |
| 2019-07-29 | 0 | 0 | 31.6 | 23.5 | 51 | 14.5 | 34.2 | 0 | 19.9 | moderado | 1 |
| 2019-07-30 | 0 | 0 | 31.1 | 24.1 | 56 | 13.5 | 34.2 | 0 | 18.5 | moderado | 1 |
| 2019-07-31 | 0 | 0 | 31.4 | 23.9 | 52 | 17 | 37.4 | 0 | 22.5 | alto | 1 |
| 2019-08-01 | 0 | 0 | 31.2 | 23.2 | 57 | 14.8 | 33.5 | 0.1 | 18.8 | moderado | 1 |
| 2019-08-02 | 0 | 0 | 30.9 | 23.8 | 58 | 19.5 | 41.8 | 0 | 23.3 | alto | 1 |
| 2019-08-03 | 0 | 0 | 31.7 | 23.3 | 50 | 16.4 | 39.2 | 0 | 24.8 | alto | 1 |
| 2019-08-04 | 0 | 0 | 30.4 | 22.5 | 52 | 17.4 | 39.6 | 0 | 25.8 | alto | 1 |
| 2019-08-05 | 0 | 0 | 31.5 | 22.4 | 49 | 16.5 | 36.7 | 0 | 24.8 | alto | 1 |
| 2019-08-06 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 22.5 | 53 | 16 | 35.3 | 0 | 23.2 | alto | 1 |
| 2019-08-07 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 23.2 | 53 | 16.5 | 35.6 | 0 | 20.9 | moderado | 1 |
| 2019-08-08 | 0 | 0 | 31.1 | 23.4 | 55 | 16.1 | 35.6 | 0 | 23.1 | alto | 1 |
| 2019-08-09 | 0 | 0 | 32.2 | 23.1 | 50 | 15.9 | 37.4 | 0 | 25.7 | alto | 0 |
| 2019-08-10 | 0 | 0 | 32.2 | 23.5 | 52 | 13.8 | 34.6 | 0 | 24.5 | alto | 0 |
| 2019-08-11 | 0 | 0 | 32.8 | 23.6 | 51 | 14.9 | 34.2 | 0.2 | 17.9 | moderado | 0 |
| 2019-08-12 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 24.2 | 56 | 12.8 | 29.9 | 0.4 | 23.1 | alto | 0 |
| 2019-08-13 | 0 | 0 | 33.6 | 25.1 | 53 | 14.7 | 32.8 | 0.2 | 21.1 | moderado | 0 |
| 2019-08-14 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 24.9 | 55 | 15.2 | 33.1 | 0.8 | 24 | alto | 0 |
| 2019-08-15 | 0 | 0 | 32.1 | 25.2 | 54 | 14.5 | 30.2 | 0 | 19.7 | moderado | 0 |
| 2019-08-16 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 23.2 | 47 | 19.2 | 41.4 | 0 | 29.8 | alto | 0 |
| 2019-08-17 | 0 | 0 | 31.3 | 24.1 | 55 | 19.2 | 41.8 | 0 | 34 | alto | 0 |
| 2019-08-18 | 0 | 0 | 31.3 | 24.3 | 55 | 15.1 | 35.6 | 0.2 | 27.5 | alto | 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
- 1,529ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 18days
- 22 Jul 2019 – 8 Aug 2019
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- regencies
- Started on
- 22 Jul
- 2019
- Danger at start
- 10
- Low · FWI index
Where it burned
The weather it burned in
33°high
42km/h · peak gust
48%lowest humidity
It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.
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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Kotawaringin Timur where it started1,246 ha0.1 %
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294 ha0.0 %
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 area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20
Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Jul | 32.2 °C | 54 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 10 |
| 23 Jul | 30.7 °C | 56 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 15 |
| 24 Jul | 30.3 °C | 59 % | 34 km/h | 0.1 mm | Moderate 15 |
| 25 Jul | 31.0 °C | 56 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 16 |
| 26 Jul | 32.3 °C | 51 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 15 |
| 27 Jul | 31.3 °C | 63 % | 26 km/h | 1.0 mm | Moderate 14 |
| 28 Jul | 33.3 °C | 48 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 29 Jul | 31.6 °C | 51 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 30 Jul | 31.1 °C | 56 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 31 Jul | 31.4 °C | 52 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 1 Aug | 31.2 °C | 57 % | 34 km/h | 0.1 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 2 Aug | 30.9 °C | 58 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 3 Aug | 31.7 °C | 50 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 4 Aug | 30.4 °C | 52 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 5 Aug | 31.5 °C | 49 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 6 Aug | 31.0 °C | 53 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 7 Aug | 31.0 °C | 53 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 8 Aug | 31.1 °C | 55 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 9 Aug after | 32.2 °C | 50 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 10 Aug after | 32.2 °C | 52 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 11 Aug after | 32.8 °C | 51 % | 34 km/h | 0.2 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 12 Aug after | 32.0 °C | 56 % | 30 km/h | 0.4 mm | High 23 |
| 13 Aug after | 33.6 °C | 53 % | 33 km/h | 0.2 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 14 Aug after | 33.0 °C | 55 % | 33 km/h | 0.8 mm | High 24 |
| 15 Aug after | 32.1 °C | 54 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 16 Aug after | 33.0 °C | 47 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 17 Aug after | 31.3 °C | 55 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 18 Aug after | 31.3 °C | 55 % | 36 km/h | 0.2 mm | High 28 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 9.9, a minimum humidity of 54% and rain the day before. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2017: 23.
FWI at the start
9.9
Minimum humidity
54 %
Days without rain
0
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Kotawaringin Timur fire, July 2019
1,529 ha
18 days
FWI 9.9
Min. humidity 54 %
Kotawaringin Timur fire, August 2019
3,779 ha
22 days
FWI 12.1
Min. humidity 54 %
57 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.8 mm on 22 Sept.
Pulang Pisau fire, August 2019
34,178 ha
38 days
FWI 6.3
Min. humidity 54 %
135 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 5.7 mm on 3 Oct.
Pulang Pisau fire, October 2019
4,960 ha
17 days
FWI 9.7
Min. humidity 51 %
127 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 15.0 mm on 26 Oct.
Pulang Pisau fire, November 2019
3,580 ha
6 days
FWI 10.5
Min. humidity 57 %
116 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 8.5 mm on 13 Nov.
Ketapang fire, August 2018
1,859 ha
11 days
FWI 9.5
Min. humidity 56 %
204 km away, in 2018
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 8.6 mm on 25 Aug.
What happened to them
- 14 days
- median duration
- 2,910 ha
- median area
- 100 %
- went past 1,000 ha
- 4.2 mm
- rain at the end (median; 22 of 23 had it)
It stayed below its twins: 1,529 ha against a median of 2,910 ha. It lasted 18 days, against 14 days.
In 1 of 23, 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 4.2 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
—first rain
—no rain in ten days
42km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 8 Aug, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain. Twins with rain when they ended: 22 of 23, with a median of 4.2 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 2017.
- 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 · 15 Jul 2019
After · 15 Aug 2019
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Other fires nearby
- 166,028 haSeruyanJuly 2026 · 94 days · 8 km away
- 24,779 haKotawaringin Timur28 August 2019 · 32 days · 10 km away
- 7,394 haKotawaringin TimurSeptember 2018 · 13 days · 15 km away
- 13,070 haKotawaringin Timur29 August 2019 · 36 days · 18 km away
- 35,284 haKotawaringin TimurJuly 2026 · 91 days · 25 km away
- 9,342 haKatingan5 September 2019 · 21 days · 40 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Kotawaringin Timur fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 22 July 2019 and 8 August 2019: 18 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 1,529 hectares (15.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Kotawaringin Timur (1,246 ha, 0.1 %); Seruyan (294 ha, 0.0 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 33.3 °C, humidity dropped to 48 % and gusts hit 42 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 26, 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 2017 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 23. Their median duration was 14 days and their median area 2,910 ha; 100 % went past 1,000 ha. In 1 of 23, 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 4.2 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
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History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
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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.