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Wildfires in Samlout

Samlout, Cambodia, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 15,745 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Sat 24 Very low 31° · 63 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 31° · 64 % · 25 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 31° · 73 % · 30 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 64 % · 37 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 61 % · 39 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 79 % · 36 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 82 % · 36 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 31° · 78 % · 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

15,745
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
5
fires
1,437
km²

How many times has Samlout burned?

Samlout has burned 5 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2020, 2021 and 2023. The most recent: Samlout fire, February 2023, with 2,343 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 15,745 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 12,674 hectares, 8.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
5
fires
3
years with fire
15,745
cumulative ha
12,674
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 Samlout

  1. 2,343 ha Samlout fire, February 2023 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,329 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 3,315 ha Samlout fire, 17 February 2021 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 3,294 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 3,152 ha Samlout fire, 15 February 2021 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 3,137 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 4,154 ha Samlout fire, 18 February 2020 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 4,492 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 2,782 ha Samlout fire, 18 February 2020 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,766 ha in total · 8 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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