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Wildfires in Buru

Buru, Indonesia, has had 14 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 99,857 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 22% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Sat 24 Very low 33° · 42 % · 35 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 31° · 57 % · 36 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 66 % · 32 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 52 % · 32 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 43 % · 32 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Low 32° · 40 % · 38 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 53 % · 33 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 86 % · 32 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

99,857
hectares burned
22 %
of its area
14
fires
4,490
km²

How many times has Buru burned?

Buru has burned 14 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2019, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Buru fire, 13 October 2026, with 1,644 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 99,857 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 88,406 hectares, 20 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 11× 26
14
fires
3
years with fire
99,857
cumulative ha
88,406
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 Buru

  1. 1,644 ha Buru fire, 13 October 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,633 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 2,598 ha Buru fire, 7 October 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,644 ha in total · 18 days
  3. 2,257 ha Buru fire, 4 October 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,242 ha in total · 21 days
  4. 1,079 ha Buru Selatan fire, 20 September 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 8,490 ha in total · 23 days
  5. 1,850 ha Buru fire, 14 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,838 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 3,246 ha Buru fire, 13 September 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,334 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 7,320 ha Buru fire, 19 August 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 7,402 ha in total · 27 days
  8. 1,526 ha Buru fire, 17 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,516 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 67,764 ha Buru fire, 8 August 2026 where it started 15% of the municipality · 67,318 ha in total · 72 days
  10. 2,915 ha Buru fire, 5 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,896 ha in total · 21 days
  11. 1,963 ha Buru fire, 1 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,950 ha in total · 9 days
  12. 1,646 ha Buru fire, October 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,635 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 2,322 ha Buru fire, November 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,307 ha in total · 10 days
  14. 1,725 ha Buru fire, October 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,714 ha in total · 3 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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