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Wildfire near Ketapang (Sep 24 · E)

Ended · 400 hectares (988 acres) · Started · Updated

This fire in numbers3 days
400Hectares988Acres3Days it lasted

Started on Sep 24, 2026.

Wildfire near Ketapang (Sep 24 · E) — Sentinel-2 SWIR

Green: vegetationBrown: already burnedOrange: fire right nowSentinel-2 · Copernicus

Red dots: heat detected by satellite in the last 48h. NASA FIRMS

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An active wildfire is currently burning across 350 hectares, or 865 acres, of land in Ketapang, Indonesia. Having started on September 24, 2026, the fire is maintaining a low satellite heat intensity as it burns through the region during the dry season.

Monitoring systems have detected 20 heat signatures over the past 48 hours in the vicinity of the fire. This localized activity unfolds against a broader national backdrop where 4,948,429 hectares have burned so far in 2026, tracking 39 percent above the country's two-decade average.

In context

This wildfire burned in Indonesia for 2 days. In total it burned about 400 ha (988 acres) — around 4.0 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 6,737,718 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 89% above the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.

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