Ministry of Environment and Forestry: Number of Hotspots in Indonesia Reaches 253 in Last 24 Hours (Wednesday, November 26, 2025)

Based on the SiPongi forest and land fire monitoring system of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK), monitoring in the last 24 hours showed that 253 hotspots were detected in Indonesia. This number of hotspots increased by 82 points compared to the previous period.

This data is the result of satellite imagery from Terra/Aqua, SNPP, and NOAA, accessed on Wednesday (11/26/2025) at 11:12 AM WIB. Of the 253 detected hotspots, 3 points had a high hotspot confidence level, 244 points were moderate scale, and 6 points were low scale.

Hotspot confidence levels are divided into 3 scales. The low scale ranges from 0 - 29, the moderate scale from 30 - 79, and the high scale from 80 - 100. The higher the hotspot confidence level, the higher the likelihood of forest and land fires occurring in a particular area.

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The most detected hotspots were in North Maluku with 45 points. East Nusa Tenggara ranked second with 32 hotspots. Central Sulawesi was in third place with 27 hotspots.

A total of 27 hotspots were detected in Southeast Sulawesi, followed by East Kalimantan with 24 hotspots, and West Sulawesi and East Java with 21 and 16 detected hotspots, respectively.

A hotspot is a coordinate point of an area that has a higher surface temperature compared to its surroundings, and not the number of forest and land fire incidents.

However, a large number of clustered hotspots in an area indicates the occurrence of forest and land fires. This means that hotspot data from remote sensing satellite detection is still the most effective in monitoring forest and land fires over a large area.

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