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Wildfires in Riau

Riau, Indonesia: 112 fires with a page have entered 9 of its 11 regencies since 2016, burning 333,648 hectares inside the region. The largest was Rokan Hilir in 11 August 2016, with 21,920 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
333,648ha
Since 2016
Of the region
3.7%
90,182 km²
fires
112
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
9
of 11
Largest fire
21,920ha
Rokan Hilir · 11 August 2016
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very low 33° · 59 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 29° · 86 % · 31 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 30° · 78 % · 17 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 28° · 85 % · 17 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 72 % · 21 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 74 % · 22 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 72 % · 28 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 70 % · 21 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

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

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Rokan Hilir 116,175 ha · 13 %
  2. Pelalawan 58,898 ha · 4.5 %
  3. Bengkalis 57,307 ha · 6.7 %
  4. Indragiri Hilir 31,935 ha · 2.4 %
  5. Indragiri Hulu 25,174 ha · 3.1 %
  6. Kota Dumai 24,543 ha · 11 %
  7. Rokan Hulu 11,732 ha · 1.6 %
  8. Siak 7,372 ha · 0.9 %
  9. Kampar 513 ha · 0.0 %

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
20261435,889 Bengkalis 9,135 ha
2025720,064 Rokan Hilir 6,314 ha
202435,090 Rokan Hilir 1,720 ha
202322,761 Indragiri Hulu 1,595 ha
202159,457 Bengkalis 2,451 ha
202037,019 Kota Dumai 3,198 ha
201948138,447 Indragiri Hilir 8,486 ha
20181655,643 Rokan Hilir 16,960 ha
20161459,277 Rokan Hilir 21,920 ha

All fires in Riau · 112

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).