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Wildfires in Chey Saen

Chey Saen, Cambodia, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 40,985 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 37% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 13).

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. Mon 9 Moderate 35° · 37 % · 34 km/h
  2. Tue 10 Moderate 34° · 50 % · 40 km/h
  3. Wed 11 Very low 32° · 52 % · 31 km/h
  4. Thu 12 Very low 32° · 59 % · 28 km/h
  5. Fri 13 Very low 32° · 62 % · 27 km/h
  6. Sat 14 Very low 32° · 63 % · 21 km/h
  7. Sun 15 Very low 32° · 64 % · 23 km/h
  8. Mon 16 Very low 32° · 63 % · 25 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Chey Saen: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

40,985
hectares burned
37 %
of its area
12
fires
1,107
km²

How many times has Chey Saen burned?

Chey Saen has burned 12 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2020, 2021, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Chey Saen fire, 10 February 2026, with 2,080 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 40,985 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 32,367 hectares, 29 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 3× 26
12
fires
5
years with fire
40,985
cumulative ha
32,367
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 Chey Saen

  1. 2,080 ha Chey Saen fire, 10 February 2026 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,318 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 266 ha Chhaeb fire, 8 February 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 3,671 ha in total · 17 days
  3. 18,677 ha Chey Saen fire, 7 February 2026 where it started 17% of the municipality · 20,923 ha in total · 17 days
  4. 179 ha Chhaeb fire, 16 February 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 4,805 ha in total · 33 days
  5. 2,389 ha Chey Saen fire, March 2021 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,375 ha in total · 22 days
  6. 2,443 ha Chey Saen fire, February 2021 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,430 ha in total · 29 days
  7. 5,237 ha Chey Saen fire, January 2021 where it started 4.7% of the municipality · 5,228 ha in total · 20 days
  8. 3,200 ha Chey Saen fire, 7 February 2020 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 3,182 ha in total · 21 days
  9. 600 ha Thala Barivat fire, 6 February 2020 0.5% of the municipality · 15,837 ha in total · 30 days
  10. 2,923 ha Chey Saen fire, 5 February 2020 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 2,909 ha in total · 30 days
  11. 2,338 ha Chey Saen fire, January 2020 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 2,324 ha in total · 17 days
  12. 652 ha Rovieng fire, 25 February 2017 0.6% of the municipality · 4,437 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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