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Wildfires in Aek Phnum

Aek Phnum, Cambodia, has had 17 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 59,016 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 55% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

Only fires of 2,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sun 25 Very low 33° · 52 % · 27 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 32° · 61 % · 25 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 32° · 55 % · 27 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 63 % · 28 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 65 % · 20 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 67 % · 28 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 62 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 62 % · 26 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

59,016
hectares burned
55 %
of its area
17
fires
1,074
km²

How many times has Aek Phnum burned?

Aek Phnum has burned 17 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2019, 2020 and 2024. The most recent: Aek Phnum fire, April 2024, with 3,996 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 59,016 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 44,307 hectares, 41 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 6× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 8× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
17
fires
4
years with fire
59,016
cumulative ha
44,307
distinct ha

Fires larger than 2,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Cambodia →

Fires that entered Aek Phnum

  1. 3,996 ha Aek Phnum fire, April 2024 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 4,046 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 296 ha Sangkae fire, April 2024 0.3% of the municipality · 7,324 ha in total · 17 days
  3. 3,485 ha Aek Phnum fire, February 2020 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 4,002 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 3,304 ha Aek Phnum fire, July 2019 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 3,289 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 3,444 ha Aek Phnum fire, 24 April 2019 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 3,423 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 5,253 ha Aek Phnum fire, 24 April 2019 where it started 4.9% of the municipality · 6,012 ha in total · 13 days
  7. 3,806 ha Aek Phnum fire, 18 April 2019 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 3,783 ha in total · 19 days
  8. 1,197 ha Sangkae fire, April 2019 1.1% of the municipality · 25,741 ha in total · 22 days
  9. 0 ha Mongkol Borei fire, March 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 2,032 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 143 ha Thma Koul fire, March 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 2,295 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 3,155 ha Aek Phnum fire, March 2019 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 3,842 ha in total · 12 days
  12. 769 ha Thma Koul fire, April 2016 0.7% of the municipality · 2,425 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 400 ha Kralanh fire, April 2016 0.4% of the municipality · 2,949 ha in total · 10 days
  14. 3,603 ha Aek Phnum fire, April 2016 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 3,581 ha in total · 21 days
  15. 21,548 ha Sangkae fire, March 2016 20% of the municipality · 64,197 ha in total · 59 days
  16. 1,412 ha Aek Phnum fire, 24 February 2016 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,180 ha in total · 12 days
  17. 3,205 ha Aek Phnum fire, 24 February 2016 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 3,185 ha in total · 9 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Open Development Mekong, Open Development Cambodia (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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