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Wildfires in Malaysia in 2025

10 fires larger than 500 hectares in Malaysia in 2025, with 9,405 hectares burned according to their perimeters. Here is the whole year: what the official record says, when and where it burned and what the weather was like.

Only fires of 500 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the entry totals, but they are in the GWIS yearly series.

Series not comparable from October 2025 onwards: GWIS changed its near-real-time perimeters.

The year in a few sentences

  1. According to Copernicus GWIS, 37,702 hectares burned in Malaysia in 2025: 22% of the average of the other years from 2012 to 2025 (168,560 ha). GWIS figures for 2025 and 2026 are provisional: they are left out of the average and the worst year.

    Copernicus GWIS · See the data

  2. The worst week was 16 July to 22 July: 9,248 hectares burned in seven days, 25% of the year according to Copernicus GWIS.

    Copernicus GWIS · See the data

  3. The largest fire was the Mukah fire, which started on 20 July 2025 and burned 1,531 hectares: 16% of the area of the year's 10 fires with a page.

    WorldFires · See the data · Open the fire page

Official burned area
38k ha
Copernicus GWIS
Fires with a page
10
9,405 ha within their perimeters
Largest fire
1,531 ha
Mukah · 20 Jul
Highest FWI
—
Not yet calculated with the current method

Map of the year

Copernicus GWIS
One circle per fire, sized by its area. Tap one to open its page.

Month by month

Hectares within the perimeters by the month the fire started. Tap a month to see it on the map.

Week by week, against other years

Copernicus GWIS

Cumulative burned area in 2025 over the lowest and highest of each week in the record since 2012, and its average. The bars below show what burned each week. Tap the chart to see a week. The average and the band are the Copernicus GWIS climatology for 2012–2025, which includes 2025 itself.

0 151k 302k 453k Worst week · 9,248 ha Jan Mar May Jul Sep Nov
2025 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest Hectares each week

Every year since 2012

Copernicus GWIS

Hectares burned per year in the official record. Tap a year to open its yearbook.

2025: 37,702 ha Average of the other years: 168,560 ha

Cite this

Markdown version

Copy the sentences with their source and link. WorldFires data are CC BY 4.0: credit WorldFires and the original source.

- According to Copernicus GWIS, 37,702 hectares burned in Malaysia in 2025: 22% of the average of the other years from 2012 to 2025 (168,560 ha). GWIS figures for 2025 and 2026 are provisional: they are left out of the average and the worst year.
- The worst week was 16 July to 22 July: 9,248 hectares burned in seven days, 25% of the year according to Copernicus GWIS.
- The largest fire was the Mukah fire, which started on 20 July 2025 and burned 1,531 hectares: 16% of the area of the year's 10 fires with a page.

WorldFires, “Wildfires in Malaysia in 2025”, https://worldfires.org/en/country/malaysia/2025 (accessed 8 November 2026). Sources: Copernicus GWIS, WorldFires.

Fires of 2025, largest first · 10

Burned area in 2025 (Copernicus Land, Sentinel-3)

According to Copernicus Land, 18,203 ha burned in 2025: rank 6 of 7 complete years (1 = the most burned). The average of those years is 56,958 ha.

The area the Sentinel-3 satellite sees burned each month, separate from the fire pages. It is the same source and the same method every year, so years can be compared with each other. It counts everything that burns, including crop and pasture burning, which is why it does not match the fire pages or the official statistics.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Where most burned in 2025

  1. Selangor 5,213 ha
  2. Sarawak 4,432 ha
  3. Pahang 2,983 ha
  4. Perlis 1,809 ha
  5. Perak 1,392 ha
  6. Kedah 1,247 ha
  7. Sabah 1,128 ha

The whole series since 2018

Source: Copernicus Land Monitoring Service, “Burnt Area 2018-present (raster 300 m), global, monthly – version 4”, monthly Sentinel-3 product, DOI 10.2909/8fa58061-28ab-49bb-9b77-c26b50733e34. Generated using European Union’s Copernicus Land Monitoring Service information; worldfires.org adds up, by country and region, the true area of the 300 m cells where a burn was detected. Latest month published: May 2026. Product page · Methodology

Sources and limits

Fire-page areas are satellite-measured perimeters and may differ from official statistics. The yearly and weekly record is the Copernicus GWIS estimate. The FWI is our own calculation from ERA5 at each fire's location: it is not an official danger warning.

Perimeters: Copernicus EFFIS and GWIS (and MTBS, NIFC or NBAC in North America). Hotspots: NASA FIRMS (VIIRS). Weather: Copernicus ERA5 via Open-Meteo. How it is calculated