1,118 Hotspots Detected in Indonesia in the Last 24 Hours (Wednesday, August 13, 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 that 1,118 hotspots were detected in Indonesia. This number of hotspots increased by 266 points compared to the previous period.

The data is the result of satellite imagery from Terra/Aqua, SNPP, and NOAA accessed on Wednesday (August 13, 2025) at 11:21 AM WIB. Of the 1,118 detected hotspots, 59 points have a high hotspot confidence level, 990 points are medium scale, and 69 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 likelihood of forest and land fires occurring in a certain area.

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The most detected hotspots are in East Nusa Tenggara with 705 points. West Nusa Tenggara ranks second with the most hotspots, with 71 points. Central Sulawesi is in third place with 60 hotspots.

A total of 55 hotspots were detected in East Java, followed by North Sumatra with 46 hotspots, and Maluku and Southeast Sulawesi each have 42 and 39 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 in monitoring forest and land fires for large areas.

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