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Wildfires in Buton

Buton, Indonesia, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2026: 5,188 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.1% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 20).

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. Mon 26 Moderate 32° · 54 % · 34 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Moderate 33° · 45 % · 34 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Moderate 32° · 53 % · 34 km/h
  4. Thu 29 High 32° · 50 % · 38 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Low 31° · 61 % · 35 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Moderate 33° · 44 % · 37 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 63 % · 30 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Low 32° · 45 % · 36 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

5,188
hectares burned
3.1 %
of its area
2
fires
1,664
km²

How many times has Buton burned?

Buton has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2026. The most recent: Buton fire, 27 September 2026, with 1,698 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
2
fires
1
years with fire
5,188
cumulative ha
27 Sept 2026
most recent

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 Buton

  1. 1,698 ha Buton fire, 27 September 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,687 ha in total · 18 days
  2. 3,490 ha Buton fire, 27 September 2026 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 4,216 ha in total · 28 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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