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Wildfires in Balangan

Balangan, Indonesia, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 4,188 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.2% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

Only fires of 1,500 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Wed 28 Very low 33° · 56 % · 30 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Low 36° · 38 % · 22 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 35° · 48 % · 32 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 34° · 53 % · 29 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 34° · 55 % · 19 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 34° · 56 % · 37 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 34° · 55 % · 27 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 34° · 87 % · 31 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

4,188
hectares burned
2.2 %
of its area
4
fires
1,916
km²

How many times has Balangan burned?

Balangan has burned 4 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2019 and 2026. The most recent: Balangan fire, August 2026, with 1,897 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,188 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,011 hectares, 1.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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  4. 1× 19
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  11. 3× 26
4
fires
2
years with fire
4,188
cumulative ha
3,011
distinct ha

Fires larger than 1,500 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Indonesia →

Fires that entered Balangan

  1. 1,897 ha Balangan fire, August 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,896 ha in total · 36 days
  2. 109 ha Paser fire, 21 August 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 22,082 ha in total · 66 days
  3. 447 ha Paser fire, July 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 13,048 ha in total · 90 days
  4. 1,735 ha Hulu Sungai Utara fire, 15 September 2019 0.9% of the municipality · 3,671 ha in total · 14 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Badan Pusat Statistik (BPS - Statistics Indonesia), World Food Programme, OCHA ROAP (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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