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Wildfires in Lumphat

Lumphat, Cambodia, has had 20 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 47,970 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 26% 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 30 Very low 33° · 55 % · 29 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 34° · 48 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 33° · 50 % · 17 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 34° · 49 % · 46 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 33° · 55 % · 27 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 33° · 58 % · 25 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 32° · 56 % · 34 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 32° · 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

47,970
hectares burned
26 %
of its area
20
fires
1,837
km²

How many times has Lumphat burned?

Lumphat has burned 20 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Lumphat fire, 31 January 2026, with 3,200 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 47,970 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 34,477 hectares, 19 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 6× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 5× 26
20
fires
7
years with fire
47,970
cumulative ha
34,477
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 Lumphat

  1. 3,200 ha Lumphat fire, 31 January 2026 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 3,182 ha in total · 23 days
  2. 2,590 ha Lumphat fire, 31 January 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,576 ha in total · 20 days
  3. 2,273 ha Lumphat fire, 21 January 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,277 ha in total · 31 days
  4. 853 ha Ou Ya Dav fire, January 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 3,725 ha in total · 23 days
  5. 2,785 ha Lumphat fire, 13 January 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,770 ha in total · 19 days
  6. 2,060 ha Lumphat fire, January 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,048 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 9 ha Kaoh Nheaek fire, 2 February 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 2,556 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 2,278 ha Lumphat fire, February 2022 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,265 ha in total · 13 days
  9. 2,073 ha Lumphat fire, January 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,061 ha in total · 24 days
  10. 3,884 ha Lumphat fire, December 2018 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 3,860 ha in total · 30 days
  11. 2,855 ha Lumphat fire, January 2018 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,837 ha in total · 16 days
  12. 150 ha Kaoh Nheaek fire, 9 January 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 2,704 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 5,243 ha Lumphat fire, February 2017 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 5,212 ha in total · 17 days
  14. 914 ha Ou Ya Dav fire, 4 February 2017 0.5% of the municipality · 2,033 ha in total · 12 days
  15. 4,701 ha Lumphat fire, 23 January 2016 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 4,672 ha in total · 25 days
  16. 2,849 ha Lumphat fire, 19 January 2016 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,833 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 1,163 ha Kaoh Nheaek fire, 19 January 2016 0.6% of the municipality · 2,675 ha in total · 8 days
  18. 517 ha Ou Ya Dav fire, 18 January 2016 0.3% of the municipality · 2,633 ha in total · 17 days
  19. 3,279 ha Lumphat fire, 14 January 2016 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,314 ha in total · 13 days
  20. 4,293 ha Lumphat fire, 13 January 2016 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 4,267 ha in total · 22 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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