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Wildfires in Kubu Raya

Kubu Raya, Indonesia, has had 38 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 135,346 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 16% 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. Wed 4 Very low 31° · 82 % · 19 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Very low 32° · 61 % · 30 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low 30° · 86 % · 18 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 31° · 76 % · 27 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 31° · 69 % · 18 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 30° · 80 % · 21 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 29° · 81 % · 24 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Very low 30° · 90 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Kubu Raya: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

135,346
hectares burned
16 %
of its area
38
fires
8,654
km²

How many times has Kubu Raya burned?

Kubu Raya has burned 38 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2018, 2019, 2021, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Kubu Raya fire, September 2026, with 1,753 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 135,346 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 97,580 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 5× 18
  4. 10× 19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 19× 26
38
fires
5
years with fire
135,346
cumulative ha
97,580
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 Kubu Raya

  1. 1,753 ha Kubu Raya fire, September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,741 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 1,655 ha Kubu Raya fire, 29 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,798 ha in total · 18 days
  3. 4,884 ha Kubu Raya fire, 28 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,852 ha in total · 17 days
  4. 2,335 ha Kubu Raya fire, 27 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,320 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 1,652 ha Kubu Raya fire, 26 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,640 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 1,690 ha Kubu Raya fire, 26 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,678 ha in total · 10 days
  7. 5,557 ha Kubu Raya fire, 23 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,583 ha in total · 22 days
  8. 6,583 ha Kubu Raya fire, 21 August 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 6,542 ha in total · 30 days
  9. 5,113 ha Kubu Raya fire, 17 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,093 ha in total · 21 days
  10. 3,695 ha Kubu Raya fire, 16 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,670 ha in total · 24 days
  11. 5,513 ha Kubu Raya fire, 9 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,476 ha in total · 29 days
  12. 9,440 ha Kubu Raya fire, 8 August 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 8,735 ha in total · 37 days
  13. 8,186 ha Kubu Raya fire, 5 August 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 8,131 ha in total · 37 days
  14. 2,326 ha Kubu Raya fire, 3 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,310 ha in total · 9 days
  15. 7,107 ha Kubu Raya fire, July 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 7,059 ha in total · 53 days
  16. 2,466 ha Kubu Raya fire, March 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,450 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 3,226 ha Kubu Raya fire, February 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,205 ha in total · 10 days
  18. 430 ha Mempawah fire, January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,370 ha in total · 16 days
  19. 2,370 ha Kubu Raya fire, January 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,543 ha in total · 17 days
  20. 1,619 ha Kubu Raya fire, 13 August 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,608 ha in total · 8 days
  21. 1,537 ha Kubu Raya fire, 11 August 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,527 ha in total · 11 days
  22. 1,826 ha Kubu Raya fire, 21 February 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,813 ha in total · 8 days
  23. 8,785 ha Kubu Raya fire, 10 February 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 9,209 ha in total · 21 days
  24. 1,549 ha Kubu Raya fire, 13 September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,538 ha in total · 9 days
  25. 1,586 ha Kubu Raya fire, 11 September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,575 ha in total · 11 days
  26. 1,551 ha Kubu Raya fire, 7 September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,541 ha in total · 4 days
  27. 3,758 ha Kubu Raya fire, 4 September 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,804 ha in total · 18 days
  28. 1,981 ha Kubu Raya fire, 3 September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,967 ha in total · 8 days
  29. 2,262 ha Kubu Raya fire, 3 September 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,246 ha in total · 8 days
  30. 1,910 ha Kubu Raya fire, 9 August 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,897 ha in total · 11 days
  31. 1,690 ha Kubu Raya fire, 9 August 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,679 ha in total · 10 days
  32. 3,683 ha Kubu Raya fire, 1 August 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,615 ha in total · 14 days
  33. 2,352 ha Kubu Raya fire, March 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,336 ha in total · 6 days
  34. 1,795 ha Kubu Raya fire, 11 August 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,783 ha in total · 13 days
  35. 9,123 ha Kubu Raya fire, 11 August 2018 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 9,062 ha in total · 13 days
  36. 3,843 ha Kubu Raya fire, 10 August 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,818 ha in total · 14 days
  37. 3,700 ha Kubu Raya fire, 10 August 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,673 ha in total · 18 days
  38. 4,816 ha Kubu Raya fire, 10 August 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,784 ha in total · 18 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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