MoEF Detects 1,326 Hotspots in Indonesia, Most in East Nusa Tenggara (Saturday, October 4, 2025)

Based on the SiPongi forest and land fire monitoring system of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MoEF), the last 24-hour monitoring shows 1,326 hotspots detected in Indonesia. This number of hotspots decreased by 847 points compared to the previous period.

The data is the result of Terra/Aqua, SNPP, and NOAA satellite imagery, accessed on Saturday (10/4/2025) at 11:53 AM Western Indonesian Time. Of the 1,326 detected hotspots, 54 points have a high hotspot confidence level, 1,129 points are medium scale, and 143 points are low scale.

The hotspot confidence level is divided into 3 scales. Low scale has a range of 0 - 29, medium scale 30 - 79, and high scale 80 - 100. The higher the hotspot confidence level, the higher the possibility of forest and land fires occurring in a particular area.

(Read: Indication of Forest and Land Fire Area in West Kalimantan Province 2016-2025)

The most detected hotspots are in East Nusa Tenggara with 520 points. West Nusa Tenggara is in second place with 138 hotspots. Southeast Sulawesi is in third place with 112 hotspots.

As many as 98 hotspots were detected in Central Kalimantan, followed by West Kalimantan with 71 hotspots, and East Java and Central Sulawesi each having 60 and 56 detected hotspots.

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

However, a large number of hotspots clustered 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 for monitoring forest and land fires over a large area.

(Read: Nearly 5 Thousand Natural Disaster Incidents in Indonesia Throughout 2023, Forest and Land Fires Dominate)