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Wildfires in Halmahera Utara

Halmahera Utara, Indonesia, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2026: 32,124 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.2% 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. Sun 25 Very low 32° · 55 % · 22 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 33° · 50 % · 24 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 32° · 63 % · 21 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 62 % · 19 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 53 % · 27 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 63 % · 25 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 68 % · 25 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 88 % · 20 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

32,124
hectares burned
9.2 %
of its area
10
fires
3,500
km²

How many times has Halmahera Utara burned?

Halmahera Utara has burned 10 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2026. The most recent: Halmahera Utara fire, 2 October 2026, with 1,512 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. 10× 26
10
fires
1
years with fire
32,124
cumulative ha
2 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 Utara

  1. 1,512 ha Halmahera Utara fire, 2 October 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,502 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 1,635 ha Halmahera Utara fire, 2 October 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,624 ha in total · 17 days
  3. 1,632 ha Halmahera Barat fire, October 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 2,161 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 2,780 ha Halmahera Utara fire, 28 September 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,761 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 4,916 ha Halmahera Utara fire, 24 September 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 4,883 ha in total · 18 days
  6. 4,461 ha Halmahera Utara fire, 22 September 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 4,432 ha in total · 19 days
  7. 3,500 ha Halmahera Utara fire, 21 September 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,828 ha in total · 20 days
  8. 2,098 ha Halmahera Utara fire, 10 September 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,084 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 5,539 ha Halmahera Utara fire, 8 September 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 5,502 ha in total · 38 days
  10. 4,052 ha Halmahera Utara fire, 1 September 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,025 ha in total · 26 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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