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Wildfires in South Sumatra

South Sumatra, Indonesia: 166 fires with a page have entered 10 of its 17 regencies since 2016, burning 676,017 hectares inside the region. The largest was Ogan Komering Ilir in 20 August 2026, with 41,753 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 one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter; 11 pages with faulty data, under review. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
676,017ha
Since 2016
Of the region
7.8%
86,376 km²
fires
166
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
10
of 17
Largest fire
41,753ha
Ogan Komering Ilir · 20 August 2026
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 13 Very low 33° · 58 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Very low 32° · 67 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Very low 31° · 72 % · 19 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Very low 30° · 74 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Very low 31° · 70 % · 19 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Very low 31° · 71 % · 22 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Very low 30° · 72 % · 28 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Very low 30° · 68 % · 15 km/h

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Burning now in the region

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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. Ogan Komering Ilir 411,404 ha · 23 %
  2. Musi Banyuasin 122,601 ha · 8.3 %
  3. Muara Enim 34,425 ha · 5.1 %
  4. Banyu Asin 28,197 ha · 2.5 %
  5. Musi Rawas Utara 21,869 ha · 3.7 %
  6. Ogan Komering Ulu Timur 16,477 ha · 4.8 %
  7. Ogan Ilir 15,345 ha · 6.4 %
  8. Musi Rawas 13,537 ha · 2.1 %
  9. Ogan Komering Ulu 8,589 ha · 2.2 %
  10. Penukal Abab Lematang Ilir 3,574 ha · 1.8 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,500 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
202647239,502 Ogan Komering Ilir 41,753 ha
202423,637 Musi Banyuasin 2,016 ha
202333105,245 Ogan Komering Ilir 11,277 ha
201981321,176 Ogan Komering Ilir 27,010 ha
201824,660 Ogan Komering Ilir 2,405 ha
201711,799 Ogan Ilir 1,799 ha

All fires in South Sumatra · 178

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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