🇮🇩 Indonesia: wildfires in August 2026
Unit: archived detection events, grouped by first-detection day and a roughly 11 km cell. One physical fire can span multiple records; hotspots can also be agricultural, industrial or urban. These counts are not a census of confirmed wildfires. The archive starts on August 3, 2026; the current month is incomplete.
Indonesia, August 2026: 441 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 6 October at 04:34.
Busiest day: 25 August, with 54 ignitions detected.
"In August 2026, kanari archived 441 detection events in Indonesia, with 0 still active at the last update. This is not a count of distinct confirmed physical wildfires. Peak observed fire radiative power: 826 MW."
Fire ignitions per day
Most powerful fires of the month
| Place | First detection (UTC) | Detections | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanjung Pandan | 22 Aug, 05:55 | 5 | 826 |
| Batusopang | 8 Aug, 05:55 | 28 | 489 |
| Mulia | 25 Aug, 03:25 | 8 | 463 |
| Namlea | 23 Aug, 03:15 | 6 | 419 |
| Nangah Pinoh | 25 Aug, 05:05 | 27 | 394 |
| Kahala | 8 Aug, 06:18 | 21 | 387 |
| Nangah Pinoh | 25 Aug, 04:35 | 7 | 369 |
| Semilat | 27 Aug, 05:55 | 63 | 358 |
| Belimbing | 14 Aug, 06:25 | 13 | 343 |
| Nangah Pinoh | 27 Aug, 05:55 | 13 | 341 |
Cite these figures
kanari (2026). Archived detection events, Indonesia, August 2026: 441 records. https://kanari.io — accessed 2026-10-06.
Methodology: only significant fires are archived (corroborated by witnesses, or above detection and power thresholds); totals are not comparable to exhaustive official tallies. Full methodology and licence.
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