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Wildfires in Chi Kraeng

Chi Kraeng, Cambodia, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 22,168 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.3% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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. Fri 13 Very low 31° · 60 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Very low 32° · 61 % · 18 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Very low 33° · 62 % · 19 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Very low 31° · 65 % · 17 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Very low 32° · 65 % · 17 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Very low 33° · 55 % · 30 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Low 33° · 49 % · 29 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Very low 32° · 55 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Chi Kraeng: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

22,168
hectares burned
9.3 %
of its area
9
fires
2,379
km²

How many times has Chi Kraeng burned?

Chi Kraeng has burned 9 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2026. The most recent: Chi Kraeng fire, February 2026, with 814 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 22,168 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 19,822 hectares, 8.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
9
fires
5
years with fire
22,168
cumulative ha
19,822
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 Chi Kraeng

  1. 814 ha Chi Kraeng fire, February 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,059 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 3,857 ha Chi Kraeng fire, January 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,852 ha in total · 18 days
  3. 2,433 ha Soutr Nikom fire, February 2020 1.0% of the municipality · 4,811 ha in total · 17 days
  4. 2,991 ha Stoung fire, February 2020 1.3% of the municipality · 5,502 ha in total · 26 days
  5. 2,449 ha Chi Kraeng fire, January 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,434 ha in total · 20 days
  6. 1,745 ha Chi Kraeng fire, January 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,231 ha in total · 20 days
  7. 2,483 ha Sangkum Thmei fire, 5 February 2017 1.0% of the municipality · 2,655 ha in total · 17 days
  8. 2,844 ha Chi Kraeng fire, 8 April 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,850 ha in total · 22 days
  9. 2,552 ha Chi Kraeng fire, 3 April 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,539 ha in total · 25 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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