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Wildfires in Chhaeb

Chhaeb, Cambodia, has had 24 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 106,278 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 42% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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. Sat 24 Very low 32° · 53 % · 15 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 32° · 60 % · 27 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 32° · 56 % · 22 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 33° · 54 % · 36 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 33° · 53 % · 25 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 57 % · 20 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 59 % · 27 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 61 % · 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

106,278
hectares burned
42 %
of its area
24
fires
2,556
km²

How many times has Chhaeb burned?

Chhaeb has burned 24 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Chhaeb fire, 13 February 2026, with 2,284 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 106,278 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 83,780 hectares, 33 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10.   25
  11. 7× 26
24
fires
8
years with fire
106,278
cumulative ha
83,780
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 Chhaeb

  1. 2,284 ha Chhaeb fire, 13 February 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,304 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 1,793 ha Chhaeb fire, 9 February 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,135 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 3,425 ha Chhaeb fire, 8 February 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,671 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 5,436 ha Chhaeb fire, 6 February 2026 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 5,399 ha in total · 15 days
  5. 15,565 ha Chhaeb fire, 4 February 2026 where it started 6.1% of the municipality · 15,472 ha in total · 16 days
  6. 2,469 ha Chhaeb fire, 18 January 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,456 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 37,878 ha Chhaeb fire, 16 January 2026 where it started 15% of the municipality · 84,354 ha in total · 39 days
  8. 4,711 ha Chhaeb fire, 23 February 2024 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 4,865 ha in total · 19 days
  9. 5,306 ha Chhaeb fire, 22 February 2024 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 6,194 ha in total · 26 days
  10. 1,198 ha Thala Barivat fire, 9 February 2024 0.5% of the municipality · 5,228 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 4,326 ha Chhaeb fire, February 2023 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 5,451 ha in total · 20 days
  12. 3,350 ha Chhaeb fire, 23 February 2022 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,330 ha in total · 9 days
  13. 2,086 ha Chhaeb fire, 23 February 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,074 ha in total · 8 days
  14. 2,081 ha Thala Barivat fire, 23 February 2022 0.8% of the municipality · 5,755 ha in total · 9 days
  15. 3,482 ha Thala Barivat fire, 1 March 2021 1.4% of the municipality · 4,516 ha in total · 15 days
  16. 3 ha Thala Barivat fire, 12 February 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,232 ha in total · 9 days
  17. 57 ha Thala Barivat fire, 30 January 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 3,956 ha in total · 10 days
  18. 2,123 ha Chhaeb fire, January 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,111 ha in total · 9 days
  19. 328 ha Thala Barivat fire, 14 February 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 2,609 ha in total · 14 days
  20. 1 ha Chey Saen fire, 7 February 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 3,182 ha in total · 21 days
  21. 26 ha Thala Barivat fire, 13 January 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,179 ha in total · 18 days
  22. 2,984 ha Chhaeb fire, 15 January 2019 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,966 ha in total · 11 days
  23. 1,936 ha Chhaeb fire, 14 January 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,070 ha in total · 9 days
  24. 3,432 ha Chhaeb fire, February 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 7,380 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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