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Wildfires in Kuleaen

Kuleaen, Cambodia, has had 21 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 65,563 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 30% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Tue 27 Very low 32° · 53 % · 25 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 60 % · 21 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 65 % · 25 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 65 % · 25 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 64 % · 16 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 67 % · 19 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 79 % · 21 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 31° · 64 % · 28 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

65,563
hectares burned
30 %
of its area
21
fires
2,203
km²

How many times has Kuleaen burned?

Kuleaen has burned 21 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Kuleaen fire, 9 February 2026, with 2,229 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 65,563 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 47,501 hectares, 22 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 5× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 7× 26
21
fires
8
years with fire
65,563
cumulative ha
47,501
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 Kuleaen

  1. 2,229 ha Kuleaen fire, 9 February 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,218 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 2,541 ha Kuleaen fire, 9 February 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,526 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 3,337 ha Kuleaen fire, 9 February 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,388 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 1,617 ha Choam Ksant fire, 1 February 2026 0.7% of the municipality · 2,050 ha in total · 21 days
  5. 9,986 ha Choam Ksant fire, 1 February 2026 4.5% of the municipality · 21,046 ha in total · 28 days
  6. 8,333 ha Kuleaen fire, 31 January 2026 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 8,281 ha in total · 27 days
  7. 2,230 ha Kuleaen fire, 13 January 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,219 ha in total · 21 days
  8. 2,733 ha Kuleaen fire, February 2024 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,915 ha in total · 24 days
  9. 2,028 ha Kuleaen fire, February 2022 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,018 ha in total · 13 days
  10. 1,917 ha Kuleaen fire, February 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,101 ha in total · 21 days
  11. 1,248 ha Kuleaen fire, January 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,213 ha in total · 25 days
  12. 2,947 ha Kuleaen fire, December 2019 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,929 ha in total · 28 days
  13. 5,629 ha Choam Ksant fire, 7 January 2019 2.6% of the municipality · 12,152 ha in total · 50 days
  14. 501 ha Chi Kraeng fire, January 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 2,231 ha in total · 20 days
  15. 2,672 ha Kuleaen fire, December 2018 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,401 ha in total · 35 days
  16. 3,810 ha Kuleaen fire, January 2017 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 4,163 ha in total · 25 days
  17. 2,466 ha Kuleaen fire, April 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,184 ha in total · 23 days
  18. 2,287 ha Kuleaen fire, March 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,272 ha in total · 25 days
  19. 2,964 ha Kuleaen fire, 2 February 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,145 ha in total · 18 days
  20. 2,299 ha Kuleaen fire, 2 February 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,286 ha in total · 14 days
  21. 1,786 ha Kuleaen fire, January 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,085 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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