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Wildfires in Sambas

Sambas, Indonesia, has had 16 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 45,935 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.8% 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. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 69 % · 20 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 77 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 79 % · 25 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 73 % · 24 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 31° · 77 % · 21 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 31° · 72 % · 27 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 76 % · 22 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 30° · 93 % · 33 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

45,935
hectares burned
7.8 %
of its area
16
fires
5,857
km²

How many times has Sambas burned?

Sambas has burned 16 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Sambas fire, 24 August 2026, with 1,641 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 45,935 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 25,759 hectares, 4.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2.   17
  3. 4× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 3× 26
16
fires
7
years with fire
45,935
cumulative ha
25,759
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 Sambas

  1. 1,641 ha Sambas fire, 24 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,629 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 3,508 ha Sambas fire, 10 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,484 ha in total · 32 days
  3. 1,978 ha Sambas fire, January 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,965 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 1,760 ha Sambas fire, July 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,748 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 1,826 ha Sambas fire, July 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,813 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 3,902 ha Sambas fire, March 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,876 ha in total · 11 days
  7. 1,798 ha Sambas fire, September 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,786 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 3,112 ha Sambas fire, August 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,091 ha in total · 17 days
  9. 2,130 ha Sambas fire, May 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,115 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 4,004 ha Sambas fire, 11 August 2018 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,978 ha in total · 12 days
  11. 582 ha Sambas fire, 11 August 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,841 ha in total · 12 days
  12. 11,376 ha Sambas fire, 6 August 2018 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 11,301 ha in total · 17 days
  13. 1,861 ha Sambas fire, July 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,848 ha in total · 12 days
  14. 1,781 ha Sambas fire, 12 August 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,787 ha in total · 12 days
  15. 2,436 ha Sambas fire, 8 August 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,419 ha in total · 18 days
  16. 2,243 ha Sambas fire, 8 August 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,228 ha in total · 18 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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