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Wildfires in Pech Chreada

Pech Chreada, Cambodia, has had 33 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 100,654 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. Sun 25 Very low 31° · 61 % · 18 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 55 % · 26 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 62 % · 39 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 60 % · 41 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 56 % · 32 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 63 % · 36 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 31° · 65 % · 36 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 66 % · 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

100,654
hectares burned
26 %
of its area
33
fires
3,819
km²

How many times has Pech Chreada burned?

Pech Chreada has burned 33 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Pech Chreada fire, March 2026, with 3,832 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 100,654 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 82,168 hectares, 22 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 7× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 10× 26
33
fires
10
years with fire
100,654
cumulative ha
82,168
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 Pech Chreada

  1. 3,832 ha Pech Chreada fire, March 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,907 ha in total · 31 days
  2. 2,612 ha Pech Chreada fire, 10 February 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,641 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 234 ha Kaev Seima fire, 8 February 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 2,294 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 2,590 ha Pech Chreada fire, 7 February 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,602 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 4,086 ha Pech Chreada fire, 7 February 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 4,060 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 5,088 ha Pech Chreada fire, 3 February 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 5,053 ha in total · 15 days
  7. 1,216 ha Kaev Seima fire, 2 February 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 2,229 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 2,264 ha Pech Chreada fire, 1 February 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,250 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 167 ha Kaev Seima fire, 20 January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 6,724 ha in total · 10 days
  10. 5,827 ha Kaoh Nheaek fire, 1 January 2026 1.5% of the municipality · 53,620 ha in total · 35 days
  11. 748 ha Kaev Seima fire, 5 January 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 5,511 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 5,089 ha Pech Chreada fire, February 2024 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 5,892 ha in total · 27 days
  13. 1,000 ha Kaoh Nheaek fire, February 2024 0.3% of the municipality · 2,495 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 487 ha Sambour fire, 15 January 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 2,847 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 587 ha Kaev Seima fire, 15 January 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 2,217 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 2,260 ha Pech Chreada fire, March 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,248 ha in total · 15 days
  17. 2,322 ha Pech Chreada fire, January 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,306 ha in total · 8 days
  18. 790 ha Kaoh Nheaek fire, 31 January 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 3,087 ha in total · 8 days
  19. 1,020 ha Kaoh Nheaek fire, 6 January 2020 0.3% of the municipality · 4,642 ha in total · 5 days
  20. 2,639 ha Pech Chreada fire, December 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,622 ha in total · 7 days
  21. 209 ha Kaev Seima fire, 25 December 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 4,846 ha in total · 7 days
  22. 2,858 ha Pech Chreada fire, January 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,839 ha in total · 9 days
  23. 15 ha Kaev Seima fire, December 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 3,072 ha in total · 6 days
  24. 2,583 ha Pech Chreada fire, March 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,566 ha in total · 10 days
  25. 1,256 ha Pech Chreada fire, February 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,034 ha in total · 10 days
  26. 127 ha Kaoh Nheaek fire, 3 February 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 4,399 ha in total · 17 days
  27. 2,941 ha Pech Chreada fire, March 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,925 ha in total · 16 days
  28. 2,788 ha Pech Chreada fire, February 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,770 ha in total · 5 days
  29. 2,521 ha Pech Chreada fire, 23 January 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,869 ha in total · 4 days
  30. 6,015 ha Pech Chreada fire, 23 January 2016 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 5,975 ha in total · 4 days
  31. 11,125 ha Pech Chreada fire, 22 January 2016 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 11,053 ha in total · 5 days
  32. 5,116 ha Kaoh Nheaek fire, 21 January 2016 1.3% of the municipality · 12,908 ha in total · 5 days
  33. 18,241 ha Pech Chreada fire, 18 January 2016 where it started 4.8% of the municipality · 24,939 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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