Indonesia - Burned areas
Years available: 2015-2024
Data last updated: 8 Oct 2025
To estimate the area burned, we relied upon the official burned area dataset from Indonesia’s Ministry of Forestry (MoF, 2025). The dataset has been published yearly since 2015 by MoF and is mapped at 1:250,000 scale on a monthly basis by visual interpretation of the extent of forest and land fires from Landsat-8, Landsat-9 and Sentinel-2 satellite imagery. The visually identified burned areas are then validated by experts using hotspot data from the Terra-Aqua MODIS Satellite, NOAA 20, S-NPP and Landsat-8 as well as field reports. It is worth noting that recent research indicates that this data might underestimate the total burned area. For example, Gaveau et al. (2021) present evidence that the 2019 burned area was 90% greater than the area reported by MoF.
- Burned area map (Ministry of Forestry, 2025)
- Endrawati, Judin Purwanto, Sigit Nugroho, & Ruandha Agung S. (2018). Identification of forest and land fire activities using semi-automatic analysis of Landsat satelite imageries (Identifikasi areal bekas kebakaran hutan dan lahan menggunakan analisis semi otomatis citra satelit Landsat). Seminar Nasional Geomatika 2017: Inovasi Teknologi Penyediaan Informasi Geospasial untuk Pembangunan Berkelanjutan, 2, 273. https://doi.org/10.24895/SNG.2017.2-0.420
- Gaveau, D. L. A., Descals, A., Salim, M. A., Sheil, D., & Sloan, S. (2021). Refined burned-area mapping protocol using Sentinel-2 data increases estimate of 2019 Indonesian burning. Earth System Science Data, 13(11), 5353–5368. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-5353-2021
- Ministry of Forestry. (2025). Peta Areal Karhutla at Peta Interaktif SIGAP Kementerian LHK [Map]. https://geoportal.menlhk.go.id/portal/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=2ee8bdda1d714899955fccbe7fdf8468
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