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Wildfires in Kupang

Kupang, Indonesia, has had 24 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 63,653 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 12% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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. Tue 27 Low 32° · 57 % · 35 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 33° · 49 % · 36 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 55 % · 37 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Low 31° · 59 % · 40 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 33° · 58 % · 36 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 71 % · 35 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 31° · 64 % · 37 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 32° · 65 % · 37 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

63,653
hectares burned
12 %
of its area
24
fires
5,145
km²

How many times has Kupang burned?

Kupang has burned 24 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kupang fire, October 2026, with 1,660 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 63,653 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 53,728 hectares, 10 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 5× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 5× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 6× 26
24
fires
8
years with fire
63,653
cumulative ha
53,728
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 Kupang

  1. 1,660 ha Kupang fire, October 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,648 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 1,683 ha Kupang fire, 23 September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,672 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 3,524 ha Kupang fire, 21 September 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,505 ha in total · 33 days
  4. 2,292 ha Kupang fire, 14 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,279 ha in total · 25 days
  5. 2,933 ha Kupang fire, 14 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,913 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 8,778 ha Kupang fire, 5 August 2026 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 10,050 ha in total · 38 days
  7. 11 ha Timor Tengah Utara fire, October 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 1,786 ha in total · 13 days
  8. 2,703 ha Kupang fire, July 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,686 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 2,598 ha Kupang fire, 11 September 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,583 ha in total · 12 days
  10. 2,001 ha Kupang fire, 11 September 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,988 ha in total · 11 days
  11. 2,104 ha Kupang fire, 28 August 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,093 ha in total · 12 days
  12. 2,184 ha Kupang fire, 25 August 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,170 ha in total · 13 days
  13. 6,571 ha Kupang fire, 20 August 2023 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 6,527 ha in total · 14 days
  14. 138 ha Timor Tengah Utara fire, August 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 4,407 ha in total · 19 days
  15. 2,001 ha Kupang fire, 26 August 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,989 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 4,464 ha Kupang fire, 25 August 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,434 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 519 ha Timor Tengah Selatan fire, 18 October 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 1,743 ha in total · 8 days
  18. 5,493 ha Kupang fire, 17 October 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 5,505 ha in total · 10 days
  19. 2,406 ha Kupang fire, 14 October 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,391 ha in total · 10 days
  20. 3,060 ha Kupang fire, 10 October 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,044 ha in total · 16 days
  21. 1,286 ha Kupang fire, 6 October 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,510 ha in total · 16 days
  22. 1,752 ha Kupang fire, October 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,739 ha in total · 9 days
  23. 1,667 ha Kupang fire, September 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,655 ha in total · 9 days
  24. 1,827 ha Kupang fire, September 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,815 ha in total · 4 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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