Wildfires in North Sumatra
North Sumatra, Indonesia: 8 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 33 regencies since 2016, burning 17,550 hectares inside the region. The largest was Padang Lawas in July 2025, with 5,166 hectares inside the region. 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.
- hectares burned
- 17,550ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.2%
- 72,813 km²
- fires
- 8
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 2
- of 33
- Largest fire
- 5,166ha
- Padang Lawas · July 2025
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Wed 28 Very low 30° · 61 % · 17 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 28° · 78 % · 17 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 28° · 75 % · 17 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 29° · 72 % · 18 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 29° · 72 % · 18 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 30° · 81 % · 21 km/h
- Tue 3 Very low 28° · 77 % · 20 km/h
- Wed 4 Very low 29° · 72 % · 21 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Padang Lawas 11,124 ha · 2.9 %
- Labuhan Batu 6,425 ha · 2.3 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 5×Padang Lawas11,124 ha
- 3×Labuhan Batu6,425 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 5,167 haPadang LawasJuly 2025 · 9 days
- 4,063 haLabuhan BatuAugust 2018 · 9 days
- 2,418 haPadang Lawas17 September 2016 · 23 days
- 2,362 haLabuhan BatuJuly 2025 · 8 days
- 1,792 haPadang LawasAugust 2016 · 19 days
- 1,739 haPadang Lawas26 September 2016 · 10 days
- 9 haRokan Hulu13 July 2025 · 17 days of 2,995 ha in total
- 0 haRokan Hilir11 August 2018 · 9 days of 1,923 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | 7,538 | Padang Lawas 5,166 ha |
| 2018 | 2 | 4,063 | Labuhan Batu 4,063 ha |
| 2016 | 3 | 5,948 | Padang Lawas 2,418 ha |
All fires in North Sumatra · 8
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 2,362 haLabuhan BatuJuly 2025 · 8 days
- 5,167 haPadang LawasJuly 2025 · 9 days
- 9 haRokan Hulu13 July 2025 · 17 days of 2,995 ha in total
- 4,063 haLabuhan BatuAugust 2018 · 9 days
- 0 haRokan Hilir11 August 2018 · 9 days of 1,923 ha in total
- 1,739 haPadang Lawas26 September 2016 · 10 days
- 2,418 haPadang Lawas17 September 2016 · 23 days
- 1,792 haPadang LawasAugust 2016 · 19 days
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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