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Wildfires in Papua

Papua, Indonesia: 359 fires with a page have entered 15 of its 29 regencies since 2016, burning 1,565,812 hectares inside the region. The largest was Merauke in 15 September 2026, with 94,693 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.

These figures leave out 3 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
1,565,812ha
Since 2016
Of the region
4.9%
318,381 km²
fires
359
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
15
of 29
Largest fire
94,693ha
Merauke · 15 September 2026
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Wed 28 Very low 17° · 79 % · 26 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 18° · 80 % · 27 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 73 % · 27 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 19° · 70 % · 24 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 18° · 73 % · 28 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 18° · 79 % · 28 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 20° · 70 % · 28 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 20° · 74 % · 28 km/h
  9. Thu 5 Very low 17° · 80 % · 28 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. Merauke 1,142,065 ha · 26 %
  2. Boven Digoel 184,994 ha · 7.8 %
  3. Mappi 155,476 ha · 6.0 %
  4. Lanny Jaya 19,357 ha · 5.2 %
  5. Nabire 19,115 ha · 1.5 %
  6. Puncak 13,980 ha · 1.7 %
  7. Jayawijaya 8,746 ha · 3.3 %
  8. Dogiyai 8,611 ha · 1.8 %
  9. Yahukimo 6,576 ha · 0.4 %
  10. Paniai 4,809 ha · 1.0 %
  11. Biak Numfor 4,339 ha · 1.9 %
  12. Nduga 2,230 ha · 0.3 %

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
20262731,356,107 Merauke 94,693 ha
202436,898 Merauke 3,581 ha
20233470,568 Merauke 5,049 ha
20191330,768 Merauke 5,467 ha
20182976,230 Merauke 7,095 ha
201723,932 Merauke 2,009 ha
2016826,657 Merauke 6,426 ha

All fires in Papua · 362

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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