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Wildfires in Bengkalis

Bengkalis, Indonesia, has had 22 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 57,307 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.7% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Fri 30 Very low 33° · 50 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 61 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 63 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 31° · 69 % · 23 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 32° · 64 % · 20 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 31° · 76 % · 22 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 31° · 75 % · 19 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 31° · 80 % · 23 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

57,307
hectares burned
6.7 %
of its area
22
fires
8,564
km²

How many times has Bengkalis burned?

Bengkalis has burned 22 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Bengkalis fire, 26 March 2026, with 9,135 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 57,307 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 49,149 hectares, 5.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 5× 16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 8× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 4× 26
22
fires
6
years with fire
57,307
cumulative ha
49,149
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 Bengkalis

  1. 9,135 ha Bengkalis fire, 26 March 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 9,075 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 2,001 ha Bengkalis fire, 23 March 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,987 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 2,171 ha Bengkalis fire, 8 February 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,156 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 1,848 ha Bengkalis fire, 5 February 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,836 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 2,451 ha Bengkalis fire, 10 March 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,435 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 1,631 ha Bengkalis fire, 4 March 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,620 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 2,072 ha Bengkalis fire, February 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,058 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 1,973 ha Bengkalis fire, September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,960 ha in total · 18 days
  9. 3,342 ha Bengkalis fire, 24 August 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,320 ha in total · 12 days
  10. 1,621 ha Bengkalis fire, 4 August 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,611 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 2,226 ha Bengkalis fire, 13 March 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,211 ha in total · 10 days
  12. 1,949 ha Bengkalis fire, 13 March 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,936 ha in total · 8 days
  13. 1,774 ha Bengkalis fire, 16 February 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,762 ha in total · 11 days
  14. 7,576 ha Bengkalis fire, 13 February 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 7,525 ha in total · 13 days
  15. 3,756 ha Bengkalis fire, 7 February 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,731 ha in total · 12 days
  16. 835 ha Bengkalis fire, August 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,520 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 59 ha Siak fire, August 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 2,728 ha in total · 12 days
  18. 1,560 ha Bengkalis fire, 25 August 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,653 ha in total · 4 days
  19. 1,654 ha Bengkalis fire, 16 August 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,643 ha in total · 11 days
  20. 3,140 ha Bengkalis fire, March 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,119 ha in total · 10 days
  21. 2,705 ha Bengkalis fire, 25 February 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,687 ha in total · 8 days
  22. 1,828 ha Bengkalis fire, 17 February 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,815 ha in total · 32 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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