Started on Oct 9, 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
Burning actively near Onimsari, Indonesia, an active wildfire has scorched 1,050 hectares (2,595 acres) since it started on October 5, 2026. Satellites have registered 71 heat detections over the past 48 hours, while picking up a low heat intensity from the fire front during the dry season. This event unfolds within a wider national context where 6,320,690 hectares have burned so far in 2026, marking a total that is 77 percent above the two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire burned in Indonesia for 2 days. In total it burned about 780 ha (1,927 acres) — around 7.8 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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