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Wildfires in Maluku

Maluku, Indonesia: 45 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 7 regencies since 2016, burning 367,677 hectares inside the region. The largest was Seram Bagian Timur in July 2026, with 100,430 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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 one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
367,677ha
Since 2016
Of the region
7.9%
46,372 km²
fires
45
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
6
of 7
Largest fire
100,430ha
Seram Bagian Timur · July 2026
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 29 Low 28° · 78 % · 23 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Low 28° · 80 % · 28 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Low 28° · 76 % · 25 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Low 28° · 77 % · 22 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 28° · 78 % · 24 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 28° · 77 % · 21 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 28° · 73 % · 29 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 28° · 75 % · 22 km/h
  9. Fri 6 Very low 29° · 76 % · 21 km/h

Burning now in the region

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Seram Bagian Timur 112,582 ha · 19 %
  2. Buru 103,310 ha · 23 %
  3. Maluku Tengah 59,079 ha · 7.2 %
  4. Buru Selatan 58,096 ha · 14 %
  5. Maluku Tenggara Barat 19,683 ha · 4.4 %
  6. Seram Bagian Barat 14,955 ha · 3.0 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
202637339,235 Seram Bagian Timur 100,430 ha
202311,646 Buru 1,646 ha
202011,576 Maluku Tenggara Barat 1,576 ha
2019623,769 Maluku Tengah 8,194 ha
201611,478 Maluku Tenggara Barat 1,478 ha

All fires in Maluku · 46

Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/OpenStreetMap, Wambacher (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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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