<![CDATA[This study aims (1) to map changes in the area of forest land in the western part of Bengkalis Regency in 2016 and 2021, (2) to determine the distribution of the area of forest burned in the western part of Bengkalis Regency, (3) to determine the severity of forest fires in the District of Bengkalis West Bengkalis.This study used the NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) method by Huete et. Al by compositing band 5 (NIR) and band 4 (Red) on Landsat 8 imagery which was processed using ArcGIS software before and after a forest fire. As well as the NBR (Normalized Burn Ratio) and dNBR (Difference Normalized Burn Ratio) methods by Eidenshink et al by compositing band 5 (NIR) and band 7 (SWIR) on Landsat 8 images processed using QGIS software. For sampling using random sampling method and accuracy test using overall accuracy, user's accuracy, producer's accuracy, and kappa analysis. The results of this study are (1) the area of forest land in Bengkalis Regency continues to decrease every year, in 2016 the area of forest land903,920 ha and 2021 the total forest area is463,441 ha. (2)The area of forest land burned due to forest fires in Bengkalis Regency, which burned the least was 267.43 ha, while it was 1468.93 ha and the most extensive was 2186.53 ha.(3) Based on one forest fire distribution map, it is divided into 7 fire severity classes, namely high post-fire regrowth, low post-fire regrowth, no burning, low, medium-high and very high and the most dominant forest fire level is low-high.]]>
