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Wildfires in Pelalawan

Pelalawan, Indonesia, has had 24 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 58,898 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.5% 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. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 54 % · 27 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 31° · 69 % · 23 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 29° · 87 % · 22 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 28° · 90 % · 19 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Very low 31° · 87 % · 25 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very low 30° · 71 % · 26 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 29° · 83 % · 21 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 29° · 87 % · 21 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

58,898
hectares burned
4.5 %
of its area
24
fires
13,154
km²

How many times has Pelalawan burned?

Pelalawan has burned 24 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Pelalawan fire, 23 August 2026, with 1,818 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 58,898 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 51,534 hectares, 3.9 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 14× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 6× 26
24
fires
6
years with fire
58,898
cumulative ha
51,534
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 Pelalawan

  1. 1,818 ha Pelalawan fire, 23 August 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,806 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 2,988 ha Pelalawan fire, 11 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,968 ha in total · 18 days
  3. 2,957 ha Pelalawan fire, 18 March 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,937 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 1,796 ha Pelalawan fire, 14 March 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,925 ha in total · 15 days
  5. 2,333 ha Pelalawan fire, 11 March 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,318 ha in total · 17 days
  6. 2,727 ha Pelalawan fire, January 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,709 ha in total · 17 days
  7. 1,668 ha Pelalawan fire, July 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,657 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 1,474 ha Pelalawan fire, February 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,514 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 1,750 ha Pelalawan fire, February 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,738 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 1,833 ha Pelalawan fire, 16 September 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,820 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 2,458 ha Pelalawan fire, 15 September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,441 ha in total · 10 days
  12. 3,087 ha Pelalawan fire, 13 September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,067 ha in total · 11 days
  13. 1,918 ha Pelalawan fire, 9 September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,905 ha in total · 13 days
  14. 1,510 ha Pelalawan fire, 7 September 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,500 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 1,012 ha Pelalawan fire, 5 September 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,515 ha in total · 13 days
  16. 5,406 ha Pelalawan fire, 26 August 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,370 ha in total · 28 days
  17. 3,577 ha Pelalawan fire, 17 August 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,553 ha in total · 9 days
  18. 3,285 ha Pelalawan fire, 28 July 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,263 ha in total · 9 days
  19. 3,587 ha Pelalawan fire, 25 July 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,563 ha in total · 12 days
  20. 1,845 ha Pelalawan fire, 22 July 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,832 ha in total · 12 days
  21. 2,421 ha Pelalawan fire, 18 March 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,405 ha in total · 11 days
  22. 3,197 ha Pelalawan fire, 14 March 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,176 ha in total · 8 days
  23. 1,643 ha Pelalawan fire, February 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,632 ha in total · 17 days
  24. 2,609 ha Pelalawan fire, August 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,591 ha in total · 10 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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