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Wildfires in Sandan

Sandan, Cambodia, has had 14 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 17,684 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.9% 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.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 53 % · 34 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 54 % · 31 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 33° · 61 % · 35 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 62 % · 31 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 59 % · 19 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 32° · 59 % · 37 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 32° · 61 % · 30 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 63 % · 21 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

17,684
hectares burned
5.9 %
of its area
14
fires
2,983
km²

How many times has Sandan burned?

Sandan has burned 14 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Rovieng fire, 9 February 2026, with 156 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 17,684 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 14,548 hectares, 4.9 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
14
fires
8
years with fire
17,684
cumulative ha
14,548
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 Sandan

  1. 156 ha Rovieng fire, 9 February 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,137 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 102 ha Sandan fire, February 2024 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 3,763 ha in total · 22 days
  3. 1,163 ha Sambour fire, 29 January 2024 0.4% of the municipality · 8,003 ha in total · 27 days
  4. 48 ha Santuk fire, January 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 2,570 ha in total · 22 days
  5. 2,178 ha Sandan fire, February 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,325 ha in total · 15 days
  6. 355 ha Sambour fire, 3 February 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 7,640 ha in total · 39 days
  7. 34 ha Sambour fire, February 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 4,750 ha in total · 23 days
  8. 353 ha Santuk fire, 9 March 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 2,182 ha in total · 22 days
  9. 131 ha Sambour fire, 11 February 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,479 ha in total · 11 days
  10. 5,822 ha Sandan fire, 9 February 2020 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 5,839 ha in total · 21 days
  11. 2,576 ha Sandan fire, 8 February 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,783 ha in total · 25 days
  12. 137 ha Prasat Ballangk fire, April 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 2,110 ha in total · 17 days
  13. 2,048 ha Sandan fire, February 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,185 ha in total · 7 days
  14. 2,582 ha Sandan fire, February 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,827 ha in total · 26 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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