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Wildfire near Kokas Kota (Oct 7)

Ended · 680 hectares (1,680 acres) · Started · Updated

This fire in numbers3 days
680Hectares1,680Acres3Days it lasted

Started on Oct 7, 2026.

Wildfire near Kokas Kota (Oct 7) — Sentinel-2 true color Wildfire near Kokas Kota (Oct 7) — Sentinel-2 SWIR (fuego) True view Fire view
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True view (left): as the eye sees it.
Fire view (right): infrared (SWIR), sees through smoke and brings out the heat.

🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 brown = already burned
🟠 orange = fire right now

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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

Burning near Kokas Kota, Indonesia, an active 700-hectare (1,730-acre) wildfire that started on October 3, 2026, is currently exhibiting low fire activity. Satellites are picking up a low heat signature from the front, with 31 heat detections clustered nearby over the past 48 hours to mark the extent of the spread in the local area during the dry season.

This ongoing incident unfolds against a broader national backdrop in which 5,969,381 hectares have burned so far in 2026, tracking 67% above the country's two-decade average.

In context

This wildfire burned in Indonesia for 2 days. In total it burned about 680 ha (1,680 acres) — around 6.8 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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