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Wildfires in Prek Prasab

Prek Prasab, Cambodia, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 20,525 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 15% 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.

These figures leave out one page with faulty data, under review. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 65 % · 18 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Very low 32° · 51 % · 25 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Low 33° · 50 % · 26 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Low 33° · 59 % · 32 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 33° · 57 % · 32 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 33° · 54 % · 48 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Low 32° · 56 % · 50 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Low 33° · 53 % · 49 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 Prek Prasab: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

20,525
hectares burned
15 %
of its area
10
fires
1,388
km²

How many times has Prek Prasab burned?

Prek Prasab has burned 10 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2017, 2020 and 2021. The most recent: Sambour fire, 7 February 2021, with 919 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 20,525 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 16,113 hectares, 12 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
10
fires
4
years with fire
20,525
cumulative ha
16,113
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 Prek Prasab

  1. 919 ha Sambour fire, 7 February 2021 0.7% of the municipality · 20,110 ha in total · 55 days
  2. 1,075 ha Sambour fire, 1 February 2020 0.8% of the municipality · 15,814 ha in total · 30 days
  3. 235 ha Santuk fire, 25 February 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 2,480 ha in total · 16 days
  4. 3,793 ha Sambour fire, 17 February 2017 2.7% of the municipality · 9,777 ha in total · 31 days
  5. 5,095 ha Prek Prasab fire, February 2017 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 6,360 ha in total · 22 days
  6. 189 ha Santuk fire, 5 February 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 3,318 ha in total · 16 days
  7. 55 ha Sambour fire, March 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 2,073 ha in total · 27 days
  8. 743 ha Sambour fire, 17 January 2016 0.5% of the municipality · 6,653 ha in total · 17 days
  9. 5,375 ha Prek Prasab fire, 15 January 2016 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 18,300 ha in total · 57 days
  10. 4,876 ha Prek Prasab fire, 14 January 2016 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 6,824 ha in total · 21 days
  11. 3,545 ha Prek Prasab fire, 14 January 2016 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 3,522 ha in total · 20 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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