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Wildfires in Halmahera Barat

Halmahera Barat, Indonesia, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2025: 2,670 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.2% 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. Sun 25 Very low 32° · 70 % · 25 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 31° · 61 % · 22 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 74 % · 25 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 68 % · 23 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 61 % · 25 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 70 % · 26 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 83 % · 27 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 89 % · 25 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

2,670
hectares burned
1.2 %
of its area
4
fires
2,191
km²

How many times has Halmahera Barat burned?

Halmahera Barat has burned 4 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Halmahera Barat fire, October 2026, with 544 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 3× 26
4
fires
2
years with fire
2,670
cumulative ha
1 Oct 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 Halmahera Barat

  1. 544 ha Halmahera Barat fire, October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,161 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 0 ha Halmahera Timur fire, 30 September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,524 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 260 ha Halmahera Utara fire, 21 September 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 3,828 ha in total · 20 days
  4. 1,866 ha Halmahera Barat fire, January 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,853 ha in total · 13 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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