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Wildfires in Sintang

Sintang, Indonesia, has had 20 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 36,167 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.6% 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 25 Very low 32° · 65 % · 25 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 31° · 70 % · 22 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 73 % · 21 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 70 % · 22 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 83 % · 26 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 76 % · 22 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 76 % · 19 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 67 % · 18 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

36,167
hectares burned
1.6 %
of its area
20
fires
22,551
km²

How many times has Sintang burned?

Sintang has burned 20 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2018, 2019, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Sintang fire, 29 August 2026, with 3,382 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 36,167 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 34,116 hectares, 1.5 % 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.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 11× 25
  11. 5× 26
20
fires
5
years with fire
36,167
cumulative ha
34,116
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 Sintang

  1. 3,382 ha Sintang fire, 29 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,360 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 578 ha Melawi fire, 18 August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 10,251 ha in total · 18 days
  3. 1,641 ha Sintang fire, 11 August 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,630 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 1,551 ha Sintang fire, 4 August 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,541 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 1,149 ha Melawi fire, 2 August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 10,779 ha in total · 40 days
  6. 964 ha Sintang fire, 22 September 2025 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 2,056 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 2,959 ha Sintang fire, 22 September 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,939 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 2,243 ha Sintang fire, 22 September 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,228 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 3,121 ha Sintang fire, 22 September 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,099 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 1,270 ha Kapuas Hulu fire, September 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 1,987 ha in total · 7 days
  11. 1,546 ha Sintang fire, 22 September 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,535 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 1,880 ha Sintang fire, 20 September 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,867 ha in total · 8 days
  13. 2,514 ha Sintang fire, 19 September 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,745 ha in total · 7 days
  14. 3,624 ha Sintang fire, 19 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,600 ha in total · 9 days
  15. 1,702 ha Sintang fire, 19 September 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,691 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 1,691 ha Sintang fire, 19 September 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,680 ha in total · 7 days
  17. 1,934 ha Sintang fire, July 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,921 ha in total · 7 days
  18. 564 ha Melawi fire, 7 September 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,929 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 662 ha Melawi fire, 4 September 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 3,030 ha in total · 9 days
  20. 1,191 ha Melawi fire, August 2018 0.0% 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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