Started on Oct 5, 2026.
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Green: vegetationBrown: already burnedOrange: fire right nowSentinel-2 · Copernicus
Red dots: heat detected by satellite in the last 48h. NASA FIRMS
An active wildfire spanning 680 hectares, or 1,680 acres, continues to burn near the city of Bula, Indonesia, following its start on September 27, 2026. Satellites are picking up a low heat signature from the front, while 36 heat detections cluster nearby over the past 48 hours to indicate the current spread of the blaze.
Burning during the dry season, this incident unfolds within a broader national context that has seen 5,267,027 hectares burned so far in 2026, a figure that runs 48% above the two-decade average for the country.
In context
This wildfire burned in Indonesia for 2 days. In total it burned about 530 ha (1,310 acres) — around 5.3 km².
Close to the tropics, fires tend to follow the dry season and are often linked to land-clearing rather than a single summer peak.
The bigger picture in Indonesia
Across Indonesia, roughly 6,850,773 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 92% above the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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