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Wildfires in Chetr Borei

Chetr Borei, Cambodia, has had 17 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 54,829 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 37% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Thu 29 Very low 34° · 51 % · 23 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 62 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 33° · 58 % · 48 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 55 % · 22 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 33° · 59 % · 23 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 32° · 62 % · 25 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 60 % · 30 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 32° · 65 % · 28 km/h
  9. Fri 6 Very low 33° · 59 % · 32 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

54,829
hectares burned
37 %
of its area
17
fires
1,469
km²

How many times has Chetr Borei burned?

Chetr Borei has burned 17 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Chetr Borei fire, 7 January 2026, with 3,716 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 54,829 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 39,446 hectares, 27 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3.   18
  4. 4× 19
  5.   20
  6. 5× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
17
fires
6
years with fire
54,829
cumulative ha
39,446
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 Chetr Borei

  1. 3,716 ha Chetr Borei fire, 7 January 2026 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 3,693 ha in total · 29 days
  2. 2,881 ha Chetr Borei fire, 4 January 2026 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,862 ha in total · 26 days
  3. 2,084 ha Chetr Borei fire, December 2024 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,070 ha in total · 23 days
  4. 1,748 ha Chetr Borei fire, 29 December 2021 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,860 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 4,207 ha Chetr Borei fire, 27 December 2021 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 4,180 ha in total · 16 days
  6. 11,337 ha Chetr Borei fire, 24 December 2021 where it started 7.7% of the municipality · 11,261 ha in total · 23 days
  7. 1,422 ha Sambour fire, 5 January 2021 1.0% of the municipality · 2,948 ha in total · 14 days
  8. 2,214 ha Chetr Borei fire, January 2021 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,266 ha in total · 15 days
  9. 114 ha Sambour fire, 24 December 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 2,624 ha in total · 23 days
  10. 2,120 ha Chetr Borei fire, 20 December 2019 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,727 ha in total · 20 days
  11. 2,254 ha Chetr Borei fire, 20 December 2019 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,239 ha in total · 19 days
  12. 2,211 ha Chetr Borei fire, 20 December 2019 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,197 ha in total · 22 days
  13. 2,078 ha Chetr Borei fire, 5 February 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,066 ha in total · 15 days
  14. 6,465 ha Chetr Borei fire, 5 February 2017 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 6,424 ha in total · 18 days
  15. 5,227 ha Chetr Borei fire, 5 February 2017 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 5,230 ha in total · 15 days
  16. 2,087 ha Chetr Borei fire, 4 February 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,074 ha in total · 15 days
  17. 2,665 ha Chetr Borei fire, January 2016 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,648 ha in total · 18 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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