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🇮🇩 Indonesia: wildfires in October 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, October 2026: 467 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 15 November at 03:41.

Busiest day: 1 October, with 70 ignitions detected. -36% compared with September 2026.

467
archived events
0
still active
0
with verified witnesses
0
with aircraft observed
1203
peak power (MW)
"In October 2026, kanari archived 467 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: 1203 MW."
Source: kanari.io, NASA FIRMS, GOES and Meteosat MTG satellites plus AI-verified witness reports. Freely citable (CC BY 4.0).

Fire ignitions per day

012026-10-01: 70022026-10-02: 46032026-10-03: 14042026-10-04: 21052026-10-05: 18062026-10-06: 13072026-10-07: 30082026-10-08: 1092026-10-09: 34102026-10-10: 18112026-10-11: 30122026-10-12: 3132026-10-13: 8142026-10-14: 5152026-10-15: 16162026-10-16: 15172026-10-17: 3182026-10-18: 17192026-10-19: 6202026-10-20: 9212026-10-21: 3222026-10-22: 6232026-10-23: 31242026-10-24: 10252026-10-25: 14262026-10-26: 2272026-10-27: 12292026-10-29: 4302026-10-30: 1312026-10-31: 7

Most powerful fires of the month

PlaceFirst detection (UTC)DetectionsMW
Cisolok18 Oct, 00:3511203
Bade11 Oct, 00:061191007
Lubukgadang6 Oct, 01:061619
Kimaam2 Oct, 02:5614573
Muting5 Oct, 03:0680559
Puruk Cahu4 Oct, 06:0532557
Muting18 Oct, 00:0651526
Tobadak2 Oct, 04:0517525
Bontang Baru15 Oct, 06:2562480
Lelogama5 Oct, 04:266464

Cite these figures

kanari (2026). Archived detection events, Indonesia, October 2026: 467 records. https://kanari.io — accessed 2026-11-15.

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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