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Wildfires in Santuk

Santuk, Cambodia, has had 16 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 57,134 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 22% 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° · 55 % · 25 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 57 % · 26 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 64 % · 28 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 66 % · 27 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 61 % · 19 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 32° · 68 % · 28 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 31° · 68 % · 25 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 31° · 67 % · 19 km/h
  9. Thu 5 Very low 31° · 69 % · 34 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

57,134
hectares burned
22 %
of its area
16
fires
2,611
km²

How many times has Santuk burned?

Santuk has burned 16 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Sandan fire, February 2024, with 3,687 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 57,134 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 33,946 hectares, 13 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
16
fires
8
years with fire
57,134
cumulative ha
33,946
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 Santuk

  1. 3,687 ha Sandan fire, February 2024 1.4% of the municipality · 3,763 ha in total · 22 days
  2. 2,540 ha Santuk fire, January 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,570 ha in total · 22 days
  3. 11 ha Sambour fire, 3 February 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 7,640 ha in total · 39 days
  4. 2,056 ha Santuk fire, 15 March 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,042 ha in total · 19 days
  5. 1,844 ha Santuk fire, 9 March 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,182 ha in total · 22 days
  6. 946 ha Sambour fire, 7 February 2021 0.4% of the municipality · 23,495 ha in total · 55 days
  7. 221 ha Sandan fire, 8 February 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 2,783 ha in total · 25 days
  8. 7,500 ha Sambour fire, 25 January 2020 2.9% of the municipality · 16,437 ha in total · 44 days
  9. 2,054 ha Santuk fire, January 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,045 ha in total · 12 days
  10. 4,860 ha Santuk fire, February 2018 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 4,828 ha in total · 22 days
  11. 2,261 ha Santuk fire, 25 February 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,480 ha in total · 16 days
  12. 3,151 ha Santuk fire, 5 February 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,318 ha in total · 16 days
  13. 2,442 ha Santuk fire, April 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,426 ha in total · 25 days
  14. 2,360 ha Santuk fire, 7 March 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,345 ha in total · 34 days
  15. 4,474 ha Santuk fire, 4 March 2016 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 4,445 ha in total · 36 days
  16. 16,728 ha Prek Prasab fire, 15 January 2016 6.4% of the municipality · 21,964 ha in total · 57 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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