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Wildfires in Melawi

Melawi, Indonesia, has had 18 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 59,834 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.9% 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. Mon 26 Very low 31° · 63 % · 21 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 68 % · 24 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 80 % · 23 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 67 % · 27 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 71 % · 22 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 80 % · 28 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 77 % · 21 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 79 % · 22 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

59,834
hectares burned
5.9 %
of its area
18
fires
10,092
km²

How many times has Melawi burned?

Melawi has burned 18 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2018, 2019 and 2026. The most recent: Melawi fire, 19 September 2026, with 1,566 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 59,834 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 54,092 hectares, 5.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 14× 26
18
fires
3
years with fire
59,834
cumulative ha
54,092
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 Melawi

  1. 1,566 ha Melawi fire, 19 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,556 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 2,067 ha Melawi fire, 18 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,053 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 8,727 ha Melawi fire, 28 August 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 8,670 ha in total · 18 days
  4. 2,596 ha Melawi fire, 28 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,579 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 3,579 ha Melawi fire, 24 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,556 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 2,214 ha Melawi fire, 24 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,200 ha in total · 16 days
  7. 1,529 ha Melawi fire, 22 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,519 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 1,732 ha Melawi fire, 20 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,721 ha in total · 17 days
  9. 2,155 ha Melawi fire, 19 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,141 ha in total · 14 days
  10. 2,468 ha Melawi fire, 18 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,452 ha in total · 11 days
  11. 9,742 ha Melawi fire, 18 August 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 10,251 ha in total · 18 days
  12. 1,821 ha Melawi fire, 18 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,809 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 2,789 ha Melawi fire, 7 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,770 ha in total · 15 days
  14. 9,702 ha Melawi fire, 2 August 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 10,779 ha in total · 40 days
  15. 2,060 ha Melawi fire, 10 September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,046 ha in total · 3 days
  16. 1,378 ha Melawi fire, 7 September 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,929 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 2,388 ha Melawi fire, 4 September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,030 ha in total · 9 days
  18. 1,320 ha Melawi fire, August 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,495 ha in total · 8 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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