ABSTRACT. Tambak Sari Panji Village is one of the villages with frequent fires in Hulu Sungai Utara Regency. Fires occur almost every year and predominantly occur in peatland areas. This makes the surrounding community worried about the occurrence of smog and disrupting land, river and air transportation systems. By sector, the impact of fires covers the transportation, health, economic, ecological and social sectors. This study aims to analyze the impact of peatland fires in Tambak Sari Panji Village. The respondent sampling technique is continuous, like a snowball getting bigger or in this case an unlimited sample size (snowball sampling), until the researcher has enough data to analyze, to draw conclusive results that can help determine the impact of peatland fires. Descriptive analysis aims to describe an object of research based on existing facts (reality). The data analyzed is questionnaire data and presented in tabular form, data that cannot be presented in tabular form is presented in descriptive form, which provides an overview of all the facts obtained in the field. Based on the results of research on the impact of peatland fires in Tambak Sari Panji Village, which was conducted with a total of 15 respondents, with 100% respondents aged 20-60 years, forest fires, especially peatlands, caused many negative impacts and losses to the community, namely causing smog, health problems and ecosystem disturbances such as damage to crop fields, decreased water quality, increased temperatures and increased global warming.

Keywords: Peatland; impact; fire