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Wildfires in Rovieng

Rovieng, Cambodia, has had 24 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 44,138 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 20% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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. Mon 26 Low 33° · 46 % · 23 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Low 32° · 52 % · 30 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Low 33° · 51 % · 29 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 33° · 56 % · 40 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 65 % · 25 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 33° · 60 % · 24 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 64 % · 22 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 33° · 56 % · 25 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

44,138
hectares burned
20 %
of its area
24
fires
2,197
km²

How many times has Rovieng burned?

Rovieng has burned 24 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Chey Saen fire, February 2026, with 250 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 44,138 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 38,727 hectares, 18 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 7× 17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 5× 26
24
fires
8
years with fire
44,138
cumulative ha
38,727
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 Rovieng

  1. 250 ha Chey Saen fire, February 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 2,318 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 3,000 ha Rovieng fire, 9 February 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,137 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 1,484 ha Rovieng fire, 9 February 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,542 ha in total · 16 days
  4. 2,700 ha Rovieng fire, 5 February 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,685 ha in total · 27 days
  5. 2,377 ha Chey Saen fire, January 2026 1.1% of the municipality · 20,932 ha in total · 26 days
  6. 1,577 ha Prasat Ballangk fire, February 2024 0.7% of the municipality · 4,750 ha in total · 39 days
  7. 2,268 ha Rovieng fire, January 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,255 ha in total · 19 days
  8. 2,011 ha Rovieng fire, March 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,001 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 1,593 ha Rovieng fire, January 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,786 ha in total · 21 days
  10. 62 ha Chey Saen fire, January 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 5,269 ha in total · 20 days
  11. 2 ha Chey Saen fire, February 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,909 ha in total · 30 days
  12. 1,358 ha Rovieng fire, 20 December 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,037 ha in total · 24 days
  13. 2,208 ha Rovieng fire, 15 December 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,194 ha in total · 26 days
  14. 7 ha Prasat Ballangk fire, April 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 2,110 ha in total · 17 days
  15. 3,813 ha Rovieng fire, 25 February 2017 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 4,437 ha in total · 18 days
  16. 2,041 ha Rovieng fire, 6 February 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,028 ha in total · 15 days
  17. 3,309 ha Rovieng fire, 5 February 2017 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,288 ha in total · 19 days
  18. 795 ha Sangkum Thmei fire, 5 February 2017 0.4% of the municipality · 2,922 ha in total · 15 days
  19. 3,635 ha Rovieng fire, 5 February 2017 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,611 ha in total · 17 days
  20. 2,658 ha Rovieng fire, January 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,643 ha in total · 37 days
  21. 2,203 ha Rovieng fire, 16 March 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,191 ha in total · 49 days
  22. 2,204 ha Rovieng fire, 9 March 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,191 ha in total · 20 days
  23. 2,184 ha Rovieng fire, January 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,171 ha in total · 18 days
  24. 401 ha Sangkum Thmei fire, 16 January 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 2,059 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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