Ministry of Environment and Forestry Finds 819 Hotspots in Indonesia, Most in West Kalimantan (Thursday, August 7, 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 shows 819 hotspots detected in Indonesia. This number of hotspots increased by 152 points compared to the previous period.

This data is the result of satellite imagery from Terra/Aqua, SNPP, and NOAA, accessed on Thursday (8/7/2025) at 11:12 AM WIB. Of the 819 detected hotspots, 29 points have a high hotspot confidence level, 758 points are at a medium scale, and 32 points are at a low scale.

Hotspot confidence levels are divided into 3 scales. The low scale ranges from 0 - 29, the medium 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 are in West Kalimantan with 198 points. East Nusa Tenggara ranks second with the most hotspots, having 179 points. East Java is in third place with 58 hotspots.

A total of 40 hotspots were detected in West Nusa Tenggara, followed by Central Java with 39 hotspots, and South Sumatra and West Sumatra each having 38 and 33 detected hotspots, respectively.

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

However, a large number of hotspots clustering 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 large areas.

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