September 8, 2026: Indonesia fire situation

Indonesian fires intensify during El Niño events because prolonged drought in combination with drainage of peatlands and land use change makes the landscape highly flammable. The graph below is updated daily and helps putting the emissions of this year's El Niño in context of previous years. More background information and an even longer data record can be found in this CarbonBrief piece. Province-level data can be found in our emissions tool.

September 4, 2026: New Website

We have redesigned the GFED website to provide users with an improved and easy‑to‑use tool for placing the current fire situation into the context of previous years. Please visit the current fire situation page, where you can explore data at the GFED region level, country level, continental level, and—where available—province or state level for selected countries. The underlying text files and higher‑quality PDF figures are also available for download.