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Lumajang fire, July 2026 Lumajang, Malang

Dying down · last detection 13 Nov 2026, 18:00 UTC

The fire started on 18 July 2026 in Lumajang, Indonesia, and satellites saw it burning for 119 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,614 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 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:

Number 871 in Indonesia in 2026, of 984.

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.

Is it still active?

No detections since 13 Nov 2026, 18:00 UTC. That usually means no flame is visible from space any more, although hotspots may remain. 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.

Wind, humidity and rain for the next 72 h

Burnt area
1,614ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
119days
18 Jul 2026 – 13 Nov 2026
Municipalities hit
2
regencies
Started on
18 Jul
2026
Heat detections
302
in a single hotspot: 54 MW
Average daily power
53MW
detected power per day, on average

The next 72 hours

The wind is blowing from the south-east and pushing to the north-west; no sharp shifts are expected until Tue 17, 14:00.

ECMWF IFS 0.25° at the centre of the fire · computed 14 Nov 2026, 02:56 UTC

Sun 15, 07:00, local time

First useful rain: 2.0 mm in 6 h

Chance of rain up to 87 % in those hours. It can slow the fire at the surface, but that does not mean it will go out.

Checked, no warning: no wind shifts of more than 60° nights recover humidity (peaks of 99 % or more)

Hour by hour, local time

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Mean wind Gusts where it blows to Relative humidity Night (8 pm to 8 am) Rain (mm) · chance in %

Where is it blowing? The next 48 h

geoBoundaries/Badan Pusat Statistik (BPS - Statistics Indonesia), World Food Programme, OCHA ROAP (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO))

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    This is not an official warning. It is a global model forecast with cells of about 25 km, at the centre of the fire: it cannot see valley winds or the winds the fire itself creates. The fan shows where the wind blows, not where the fire will spread. If in doubt, follow what the authorities say.

    Emergencies · Indonesia 112 Emergency number and official warnings

    Forecast: ECMWF IFS 0.25° (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts), served by our own Open-Meteo instance; the chance of rain comes from the ECMWF ensemble. Variables: wind and gusts at 10 m, wind at 850 hPa, relative humidity and temperature at 2 m, rain. Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0).

    Fire: GWIS / Copernicus (reconstructed from VIIRS) (CC BY 4.0); hotspots from the last 24 h: VIIRS from NASA FIRMS. Boundaries: geoBoundaries/Badan Pusat Statistik (BPS - Statistics Indonesia), World Food Programme, OCHA ROAP (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)).

    How it is worked out: wind shift = a change of more than 60° in 6 h or less, with at least 15 km/h before and after; no overnight recovery = peak humidity between 8 pm and 8 am stays below 55 %; useful rain = 2 mm or more in 6 h. The fan opens 18° plus however much the wind varies within ±3 h and reaches 25 km beyond the edge of the fire: one model cell, not a rate of spread. Methodology

    Where it burned

    HOTSPOTS BY DAY 18 Jul13 Nov
    13 Nov 2026

    How it evolved, day by day

    19 Aug 2026 · 58 MW · 8 20 Aug 2026 · 49 MW · 5 21 Aug 2026 · 137 MW · 12 22 Aug 2026 · 35 MW · 6 23 Aug 2026 · 72 MW · 7 24 Aug 2026 · 43 MW · 7 25 Aug 2026 · 56 MW · 16 26 Aug 2026 · 109 MW · 16 27 Aug 2026 · 8 MW · 2 28 Aug 2026 · 83 MW · 8 29 Aug 2026 · 74 MW · 8 30 Aug 2026 · 64 MW · 6 31 Aug 2026 · 74 MW · 12 1 Sept 2026 · 69 MW · 15 2 Sept 2026 · 90 MW · 7 3 Sept 2026 · 150 MW · 13 4 Sept 2026 · 72 MW · 7 5 Sept 2026 · 46 MW · 6 6 Sept 2026 · 59 MW · 13 7 Sept 2026 · 42 MW · 2 8 Sept 2026 · 56 MW · 7 9 Sept 2026 · 48 MW · 6 10 Sept 2026 · 86 MW · 9 11 Sept 2026 · 158 MW · 21 12 Sept 2026 · 68 MW · 3 16 Oct 2026 · 29 MW · 4 17 Oct 2026 · 66 MW · 7 18 Oct 2026 · 16 MW · 4 19 Oct 2026 · 73 MW · 5 20 Oct 2026 · 16 MW · 2 21 Oct 2026 · 8 MW · 3 22 Oct 2026 · 21 MW · 6 23 Oct 2026 · 34 MW · 3 24 Oct 2026 · 0 MW · 0 25 Oct 2026 · 3 MW · 1 26 Oct 2026 · 0 MW · 0 28 Oct 2026 · 13 MW · 3 29 Oct 2026 · 69 MW · 4 30 Oct 2026 · 58 MW · 2 31 Oct 2026 · 62 MW · 5 2 Nov 2026 · 8 MW · 2 3 Nov 2026 · 19 MW · 2 4 Nov 2026 · 43 MW · 5 5 Nov 2026 · 0 MW · 0 6 Nov 2026 · 8 MW · 4 7 Nov 2026 · 41 MW · 3 8 Nov 2026 · 33 MW · 4 9 Nov 2026 · 61 MW · 3 10 Nov 2026 · 10 MW · 1 11 Nov 2026 · 0 MW · 0 12 Nov 2026 · 4 MW · 1 13 Nov 2026 · 64 MW · 6
    19 Aug 30 Aug 11 Sept 24 Oct 6 Nov

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

    The weather it burned in

    22°high
    38km/h · peak gust
    32%lowest humidity

    It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

    This area had burned before

    74% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 4,969 ha in 2016, 4,332 ha in 2017, 1,777 ha in 2018, 901 ha in 2019, 5,211 ha in 2020, 3,078 ha in 2021, 5,145 ha in 2022, 3,162 ha in 2023, 2,922 ha in 2024, 3,940 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 1,193 ha that had burned before.

    How big is it?

    10 km
    It burned the equivalent of 1% of the area of London (16 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. Lumajang where it started
      1,070 ha reached on 19 Aug
      0.6 %
    2. 552 ha reached on 20 Aug
      0.2 %

    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 area< 0.1 ha
    Residents< 20

    Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (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)
    13 Aug 20.1 °C 57 % 27 km/h 1.8 mm fwi. 0
    14 Aug 19.9 °C 71 % 24 km/h 6.3 mm fwi. 0
    15 Aug 18.4 °C 81 % 24 km/h 12.5 mm fwi. 0
    16 Aug 19.1 °C 76 % 23 km/h 6.3 mm fwi. 0
    17 Aug 19.1 °C 71 % 23 km/h 5.6 mm fwi. 0
    18 Aug 20.7 °C 64 % 26 km/h 3.2 mm fwi. 0
    19 Aug 19.8 °C 65 % 26 km/h 8.3 mm fwi. 0
    20 Aug 18.7 °C 67 % 25 km/h 3.2 mm fwi. 0
    21 Aug 19.7 °C 67 % 28 km/h 5.8 mm fwi. 0
    22 Aug 20.0 °C 69 % 29 km/h 4.7 mm fwi. 0
    23 Aug 20.2 °C 66 % 24 km/h 2.9 mm fwi. 0
    24 Aug 18.9 °C 68 % 25 km/h 4.6 mm fwi. 0
    25 Aug 19.3 °C 60 % 26 km/h 2.3 mm fwi. 0
    26 Aug 20.2 °C 63 % 25 km/h 1.9 mm fwi. 0
    27 Aug 19.6 °C 59 % 30 km/h 0.6 mm fwi. 0
    28 Aug 19.6 °C 56 % 26 km/h 0.5 mm fwi. 0
    29 Aug 20.0 °C 52 % 27 km/h 1.9 mm fwi. 0
    30 Aug 20.4 °C 64 % 28 km/h 4.1 mm fwi. 0
    31 Aug 20.0 °C 70 % 24 km/h 5.5 mm fwi. 0
    1 Sept 21.2 °C 32 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm fwi. 0
    2 Sept 20.6 °C 45 % 28 km/h 0.8 mm fwi. 0
    3 Sept 20.3 °C 45 % 27 km/h 0.7 mm fwi. 0
    4 Sept 19.8 °C 37 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm fwi. 0
    5 Sept 18.9 °C 62 % 30 km/h 1.0 mm fwi. 0
    6 Sept 19.5 °C 64 % 27 km/h 3.0 mm fwi. 0
    7 Sept 18.6 °C 69 % 27 km/h 2.5 mm fwi. 0
    8 Sept 17.5 °C 80 % 26 km/h 4.8 mm fwi. 0
    9 Sept 17.0 °C 83 % 24 km/h 7.4 mm fwi. 0
    10 Sept 17.6 °C 85 % 27 km/h 9.5 mm fwi. 0
    11 Sept 19.3 °C 72 % 24 km/h 6.2 mm fwi. 0
    12 Sept 21.0 °C 45 % 32 km/h 0.9 mm fwi. 0
    13 Sept 20.8 °C 47 % 27 km/h 1.2 mm fwi. 0
    14 Sept 19.9 °C 36 % 30 km/h 3.6 mm fwi. 0
    15 Sept 19.0 °C 62 % 29 km/h 4.2 mm fwi. 0
    16 Sept 19.4 °C 59 % 26 km/h 2.5 mm fwi. 0
    17 Sept 19.7 °C 66 % 26 km/h 4.0 mm fwi. 0
    18 Sept 19.9 °C 66 % 27 km/h 3.8 mm fwi. 0
    19 Sept 19.5 °C 75 % 25 km/h 7.0 mm fwi. 0
    20 Sept 19.8 °C 66 % 24 km/h 3.5 mm fwi. 0
    21 Sept 19.9 °C 63 % 24 km/h 3.0 mm fwi. 0
    22 Sept 20.6 °C 59 % 27 km/h 1.8 mm fwi. 0
    23 Sept 19.9 °C 61 % 26 km/h 3.6 mm fwi. 0
    24 Sept 21.1 °C 44 % 29 km/h 2.0 mm fwi. 0
    25 Sept 19.9 °C 63 % 28 km/h 3.6 mm fwi. 0
    26 Sept 21.2 °C 48 % 26 km/h 3.4 mm fwi. 0
    27 Sept 20.3 °C 61 % 26 km/h 6.7 mm fwi. 0
    28 Sept 19.5 °C 70 % 24 km/h 9.9 mm fwi. 0
    29 Sept 21.2 °C 55 % 26 km/h 5.5 mm fwi. 0
    30 Sept 21.1 °C 48 % 30 km/h 2.6 mm fwi. 0
    1 Oct 19.6 °C 67 % 24 km/h 4.6 mm fwi. 0
    2 Oct 20.1 °C 56 % 33 km/h 3.1 mm fwi. 0
    3 Oct 19.6 °C 67 % 26 km/h 5.5 mm fwi. 0
    4 Oct 19.4 °C 76 % 24 km/h 7.1 mm fwi. 0
    5 Oct 19.9 °C 65 % 26 km/h 4.3 mm fwi. 0
    6 Oct 21.1 °C 56 % 34 km/h 1.0 mm fwi. 0
    7 Oct 19.9 °C 67 % 28 km/h 4.4 mm fwi. 0
    8 Oct 18.3 °C 80 % 24 km/h 6.2 mm fwi. 0
    9 Oct 18.1 °C 81 % 30 km/h 13.4 mm fwi. 0
    10 Oct 18.7 °C 81 % 26 km/h 10.5 mm fwi. 0
    11 Oct 20.6 °C 67 % 26 km/h 4.7 mm fwi. 0
    12 Oct 19.2 °C 73 % 25 km/h 5.9 mm fwi. 0
    13 Oct 21.5 °C 50 % 28 km/h 1.0 mm fwi. 0
    14 Oct 21.5 °C 52 % 31 km/h 1.8 mm fwi. 0
    15 Oct 21.5 °C 49 % 31 km/h 1.0 mm fwi. 0
    16 Oct 22.1 °C 40 % 38 km/h 0.5 mm fwi. 0
    17 Oct 21.8 °C 45 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm fwi. 0
    18 Oct 21.5 °C 63 % 26 km/h 2.4 mm fwi. 0
    19 Oct 22.3 °C 41 % 35 km/h 0.3 mm fwi. 0
    20 Oct 22.1 °C 56 % 36 km/h 0.6 mm fwi. 0
    21 Oct 22.0 °C 54 % 31 km/h 0.8 mm fwi. 0
    22 Oct 22.1 °C 42 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm fwi. 0
    23 Oct 20.3 °C 62 % 27 km/h 12.9 mm fwi. 0
    24 Oct 18.8 °C 88 % 24 km/h 15.9 mm fwi. 0
    25 Oct 19.6 °C 76 % 31 km/h 8.0 mm fwi. 0
    26 Oct 19.3 °C 73 % 31 km/h 3.9 mm fwi. 0
    27 Oct 18.8 °C 85 % 36 km/h 9.1 mm fwi. 0
    28 Oct 19.2 °C 81 % 32 km/h 6.4 mm fwi. 0
    29 Oct 21.5 °C 65 % 25 km/h 3.5 mm fwi. 0
    30 Oct 21.3 °C 68 % 26 km/h 5.0 mm fwi. 0
    31 Oct 20.8 °C 65 % 26 km/h 4.7 mm fwi. 0
    1 Nov 20.8 °C 68 % 28 km/h 6.8 mm fwi. 0
    2 Nov 17.8 °C 80 % 25 km/h 15.7 mm fwi. 0
    3 Nov 22.2 °C 60 % 32 km/h 1.0 mm fwi. 0
    4 Nov 21.3 °C 65 % 29 km/h 3.8 mm fwi. 0
    5 Nov 21.6 °C 60 % 27 km/h 4.2 mm fwi. 0
    6 Nov 22.3 °C 52 % 31 km/h 1.2 mm fwi. 0
    7 Nov 22.2 °C 52 % 36 km/h 3.2 mm fwi. 0
    8 Nov 21.8 °C 61 % 30 km/h 3.9 mm fwi. 0
    9 Nov 22.0 °C 57 % 34 km/h 5.0 mm fwi. 0
    10 Nov 20.2 °C 73 % 26 km/h 6.5 mm fwi. 0
    11 Nov 20.7 °C 67 % 30 km/h 4.8 mm fwi. 0
    12 Nov 19.4 °C 87 % 31 km/h 6.0 mm fwi. 0
    13 Nov 22.3 °C 64 % 28 km/h 2.9 mm fwi. 0

    Before and after, from space

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

    Before · 11 Jul 2026
    After · 13 Nov 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 10 October 2026 the air beside the fire reached 118 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 62: 4.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

    PM2.5 peak118 µg/m³
    Days over the guideline110 days
    PM10123 µg/m³
    Optical depth2.11
    16 Jul8 Aug31 Aug23 Sept16 Oct
    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 · 302Every 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 Lumajang fire last?
    GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 18 July 2026 and 13 November 2026: 119 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 1,614 hectares (16.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
    Which municipalities burned?
    The fire entered 2 municipalities: Lumajang (1,070 ha, 0.6 %); Malang (552 ha, 0.2 %).
    Is the Lumajang fire still active?
    No fire detections since 13 Nov 2026, 18:00 UTC. A lack of detections is not an official extinction.
    What was the weather like?
    During the fire the temperature reached 22.3 °C, humidity dropped to 32 % and gusts hit 38 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 0, class Very low.
    What weather is expected at the fire over the next 72 hours?
    The wind is blowing from the south-east and pushing to the north-west; no sharp shifts are expected until Tue 17, 14:00. First useful rain: 2.0 mm in 6 h (Sun 15, 07:00). Times are local time at the fire. ECMWF IFS forecast (Open-Meteo) computed 14 Nov 2026, 02:56 UTC; this is not an official warning.
    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 7 November 2026.
    1. Page published (1,612 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.
    • Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 302 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.

    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.