Fire near Sumatra du Sud (ID)

2.54°S, 105.45°E · first detected on 19 October at 15:05

What the satellites measured

This fire was tracked from 19 October at 15:05 to 21 October at 23:06, that is 2 days, through 152 satellite detections. The detected extent reaches 1,808 ha.

Detected extent: 1,808 ha
Cumulative power: 1,893 MW
Peak power, one pixel: 157 MW
VIIRS and MODIS detections: 152
Estimated emissions: 5.7 kt of carbon; Carbon burnt in the 0.1 degree cells (about 10 km) around the fire, from 19 October 2026 to 20 October 2026. An order-of-magnitude estimate from GFAS (ECMWF, Copernicus CAMS): it also counts neighbouring fires in the same cell. Contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information (2026). Published data stop on 20 October 2026.

These four figures cover the polar orbits alone, the ones that measure an area. The pass table below also counts geostationary detections, more frequent but too coarse for geometry, and its power column sums a whole pass where the peak above is that of a single pixel.

“Detected extent” is not “burned area”: it is the union of the ground footprints of the satellite pixels, and a pixel counts in full (375 m for VIIRS, 1 km for MODIS) even when only a forest edge is burning. Compared with press figures it is in practice one and a half to three times the area reported. Detections taken at the edge of the scan swath, too coarse to measure anything at all, are excluded. These figures come from thermal detection and are not an official assessment: only the emergency services and the competent authorities are authoritative.

Replay how the fire spread

The map is framed on this fire's footprint and loads only its detections. The timeline below covers the period in which satellites saw it, from the first to the last detection, with twelve hours before and twenty-four after; the ticks on the bar mark the emergency services' announcements that fall within it. The cursor opens on the most powerful pass, and playback replays the whole fire in about thirty seconds. “1 h” shows what is burning within an hour of the chosen moment : the map then follows the power curve below and empties when it falls. “24 h” stacks twenty-four hours : a fire stays visible between two satellite passes, which come two to four times a day. Both are true, but they say different things.

How the radiative power evolved

One point per satellite pass: the sum of the fire radiative power measured over the fire. This is the curve that says whether the fire eased off or picked up again, which no cumulative figure shows. The window covers 5 days; beyond that, clustering would merge two successive fires in the same place.

Fire dynamics

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Satellite passes in detail

Pass	Power summed over the pass	Detections	Sensor
22 October at 03:43	79 MW	3	Terra
22 October at 02:35	73 MW	1	Him9
22 October at 01:05	97 MW	2	Him9
22 October at 00:55	79 MW	2	Him9
22 October at 00:45	85 MW	2	Him9
22 October at 00:35	60 MW	1	Him9
22 October at 00:25	54 MW	2	Him9
22 October at 00:15	36 MW	1	Him9
22 October at 00:05	65 MW	2	Him9
21 October at 23:55	74 MW	2	Him9
21 October at 23:45	36 MW	1	Him9
21 October at 23:35	104 MW	2	Him9
21 October at 23:25	89 MW	2	Him9
21 October at 23:15	51 MW	1	Him9
21 October at 23:06	92 MW	2	Aqua
21 October at 23:05	94 MW	2	Him9
21 October at 22:55	113 MW	2	Him9
21 October at 22:45	80 MW	2	Him9
21 October at 22:35	117 MW	2	Him9
21 October at 22:25	50 MW	1	Him9
21 October at 22:15	112 MW	2	Him9
21 October at 22:05	62 MW	1	Him9
21 October at 21:55	64 MW	1	Him9
21 October at 21:45	48 MW	2	Him9
21 October at 21:35	212 MW	3	Him9
21 October at 21:25	103 MW	1	Him9
21 October at 21:15	142 MW	19	N21
21 October at 21:15	131 MW	2	Him9
21 October at 21:05	118 MW	2	Him9
21 October at 20:55	83 MW	2	Him9
21 October at 20:45	81 MW	1	Him9
21 October at 20:35	243 MW	3	Him9
21 October at 20:30	369 MW	44	N20
21 October at 20:25	107 MW	1	Him9
21 October at 20:15	140 MW	3	Him9
21 October at 20:11	210 MW	29	N
21 October at 20:05	175 MW	3	Him9
21 October at 19:55	130 MW	2	Him9
21 October at 19:45	76 MW	2	Him9
21 October at 19:35	122 MW	2	Him9
21 October at 19:32	196 MW	29	N21
21 October at 19:25	172 MW	3	Him9
21 October at 19:05	126 MW	2	Him9
21 October at 18:55	111 MW	2	Him9
21 October at 18:45	26 MW	1	Him9
21 October at 18:35	15 MW	1	Him9
21 October at 18:25	141 MW	2	Him9
21 October at 18:15	204 MW	3	Him9
21 October at 18:05	58 MW	1	Him9
21 October at 17:35	111 MW	2	Him9
21 October at 17:25	135 MW	2	Him9
21 October at 17:15	134 MW	3	Him9
21 October at 17:05	173 MW	2	Him9
21 October at 16:55	244 MW	3	Him9
21 October at 16:35	148 MW	3	Him9
21 October at 16:25	378 MW	4	Him9
21 October at 16:15	467 MW	5	Him9
21 October at 16:06	71 MW	1	Met9
21 October at 16:05	599 MW	5	Him9
21 October at 15:55	575 MW	5	Him9
21 October at 15:45	477 MW	5	Him9
21 October at 15:35	457 MW	4	Him9
21 October at 15:25	521 MW	5	Him9
21 October at 15:21	585 MW	9	Terra
21 October at 15:15	530 MW	5	Him9
21 October at 15:06	90 MW	1	Met9
21 October at 15:05	487 MW	4	Him9
21 October at 14:55	513 MW	4	Him9
21 October at 14:51	144 MW	1	Met9
21 October at 14:45	416 MW	4	Him9
21 October at 14:36	104 MW	1	Met9
21 October at 14:35	355 MW	5	Him9
21 October at 14:25	590 MW	5	Him9
21 October at 14:21	179 MW	1	Met9
21 October at 14:15	814 MW	5	Him9
21 October at 14:06	144 MW	1	Met9
21 October at 14:05	673 MW	3	Him9
21 October at 13:55	500 MW	2	Him9
21 October at 13:45	1,176 MW	4	Him9
21 October at 13:35	1,572 MW	5	Him9
21 October at 13:25	2,384 MW	6	Him9
21 October at 13:15	2,655 MW	7	Him9
21 October at 13:06	112 MW	1	Met9
21 October at 13:05	2,022 MW	5	Him9
21 October at 12:55	1,388 MW	4	Him9
21 October at 12:51	232 MW	1	Met9
21 October at 12:45	1,900 MW	6	Him9
21 October at 12:35	1,844 MW	6	Him9
21 October at 12:25	1,078 MW	6	Him9
21 October at 12:15	336 MW	4	Him9
21 October at 12:05	482 MW	4	Him9
21 October at 11:55	378 MW	4	Him9
21 October at 11:45	302 MW	2	Him9
21 October at 11:35	101 MW	1	Him9
21 October at 10:48	158 MW	3	Aqua
21 October at 08:31	25 MW	1	N21
20 October at 08:50	44 MW	6	N21
20 October at 08:05	37 MW	5	N20
19 October at 20:47	2 MW	1	N
19 October at 20:11	3 MW	2	N21
19 October at 15:42	32 MW	2	Terra
19 October at 15:05	19 MW	1	Him9

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