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Wildfires in Mempawah

Mempawah, Indonesia, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 27,707 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 14% 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. Sat 7 Very low 30° · 65 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sun 8 Very low 30° · 71 % · 24 km/h
  3. Mon 9 Very low 28° · 76 % · 21 km/h
  4. Tue 10 Very low 29° · 71 % · 19 km/h
  5. Wed 11 Very low 29° · 76 % · 18 km/h
  6. Thu 12 Very low 29° · 77 % · 22 km/h
  7. Fri 13 Very low 29° · 78 % · 22 km/h
  8. Sat 14 Very low 28° · 79 % · 27 km/h
  9. Sun 15 Very low 29° · 74 % · 31 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 Mempawah: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

27,707
hectares burned
14 %
of its area
11
fires
2,016
km²

How many times has Mempawah burned?

Mempawah has burned 11 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2018, 2019, 2022, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mempawah fire, 25 August 2026, with 1,799 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 27,707 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 18,476 hectares, 9.2 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 5× 26
11
fires
5
years with fire
27,707
cumulative ha
18,476
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 Mempawah

  1. 1,799 ha Mempawah fire, 25 August 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,787 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 6,098 ha Mempawah fire, 18 August 2026 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 6,057 ha in total · 32 days
  3. 1,931 ha Mempawah fire, March 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,918 ha in total · 17 days
  4. 1,655 ha Mempawah fire, February 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,644 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 2,678 ha Mempawah fire, January 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,370 ha in total · 16 days
  6. 1,970 ha Mempawah fire, 20 July 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,957 ha in total · 11 days
  7. 1,519 ha Mempawah fire, 14 July 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,509 ha in total · 17 days
  8. 4,304 ha Mempawah fire, March 2022 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 4,275 ha in total · 9 days
  9. 1,833 ha Mempawah fire, August 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,821 ha in total · 12 days
  10. 3,420 ha Mempawah fire, July 2019 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 3,397 ha in total · 20 days
  11. 501 ha Bengkayang fire, 7 August 2018 0.2% of the municipality · 2,745 ha in total · 16 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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