Wildfires in West Sumatra
West Sumatra, Indonesia: 6 fires with a page have entered 1 of its 18 regencies since 2016, burning 14,691 hectares inside the region. The largest was Pesisir Selatan in 22 March 2022, with 5,758 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
- 14,691ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.3%
- 42,847 km²
- fires
- 6
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 1
- of 18
- Largest fire
- 5,758ha
- Pesisir Selatan · 22 March 2022
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Thu 29 Very low 28° · 79 % · 26 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 30° · 69 % · 26 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 29° · 73 % · 35 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 28° · 78 % · 26 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 29° · 74 % · 16 km/h
- Tue 3 Very low 28° · 80 % · 27 km/h
- Wed 4 Very low 29° · 72 % · 23 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 28° · 79 % · 19 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 28° · 76 % · 16 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- Pesisir Selatan 14,691 ha · 2.4 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 6×Pesisir Selatan14,691 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 5,758 haPesisir Selatan22 March 2022 · 30 days
- 2,013 haPesisir Selatan26 October 2025 · 9 days
- 2,013 haPesisir Selatan24 March 2022 · 20 days
- 1,804 haPesisir Selatan29 October 2025 · 7 days
- 1,577 haPesisir SelatanSeptember 2023 · 15 days
- 1,526 haPesisir Selatan31 March 2022 · 20 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 | 3,818 | Pesisir Selatan 2,013 ha |
| 2023 | 1 | 1,577 | Pesisir Selatan 1,577 ha |
| 2022 | 3 | 9,297 | Pesisir Selatan 5,758 ha |
All fires in West Sumatra · 6
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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