Wildfires in Merauke

Name: Merauke
Address: ID

Merauke, Indonesia, has had 271 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 873,929 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 20% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 17).

Only fires of 1,500 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out 18 pages with faulty data, under review. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast

Wed 4 Low 35° · 38 % · 22 km/h
Thu 5 Moderate 36° · 35 % · 27 km/h
Fri 6 Moderate 35° · 42 % · 30 km/h
Sat 7 Moderate 34° · 51 % · 26 km/h
Sun 8 Low 36° · 36 % · 21 km/h
Mon 9 Very low 35° · 48 % · 21 km/h
Tue 10 Very low 34° · 49 % · 26 km/h
Wed 11 Low 36° · 39 % · 26 km/h
Thu 12 Very low 34° · 78 % · 30 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 Merauke: hourly forecast

Since 2016

873,929
hectares burned: 20 %
of its area: 271
fires: 44,290
km²

How many times has Merauke burned?

Merauke has burned 271 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Merauke fire, 26 October 2026, with 1,634 hectares inside the municipality.

271
fires: 7
years with fire: 873,929
cumulative ha: 26 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 Merauke

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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