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Wildfires in Sangkae

Sangkae, Cambodia, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 45,186 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 38% 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. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 61 % · 31 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 74 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 31° · 65 % · 15 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 66 % · 22 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 75 % · 27 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 31° · 70 % · 27 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 31° · 69 % · 21 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 31° · 75 % · 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

45,186
hectares burned
38 %
of its area
10
fires
1,175
km²

How many times has Sangkae burned?

Sangkae has burned 10 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2019, 2020 and 2024. The most recent: Aek Phnum fire, April 2024, with 73 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 45,186 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 28,768 hectares, 24 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 3× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
10
fires
4
years with fire
45,186
cumulative ha
28,768
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 Sangkae

  1. 73 ha Aek Phnum fire, April 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 4,046 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 857 ha Moung Ruessei fire, 13 April 2024 0.7% of the municipality · 12,407 ha in total · 30 days
  3. 6,517 ha Sangkae fire, April 2024 where it started 5.6% of the municipality · 7,324 ha in total · 24 days
  4. 2,046 ha Moung Ruessei fire, February 2020 1.7% of the municipality · 13,671 ha in total · 27 days
  5. 4 ha Aek Phnum fire, July 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 3,289 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 796 ha Aek Phnum fire, 17 April 2019 0.7% of the municipality · 6,012 ha in total · 22 days
  7. 11,091 ha Sangkae fire, April 2019 where it started 9.4% of the municipality · 25,741 ha in total · 29 days
  8. 21,443 ha Sangkae fire, March 2016 where it started 18% of the municipality · 64,197 ha in total · 70 days
  9. 1,787 ha Aek Phnum fire, 17 February 2016 1.5% of the municipality · 3,180 ha in total · 26 days
  10. 571 ha Moung Ruessei fire, February 2016 0.5% of the municipality · 5,594 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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