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Wildfires in Sesan

Sesan, Cambodia, has had 53 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 222,146 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 82% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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. Fri 30 Very low 33° · 55 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 53 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 58 % · 16 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 33° · 55 % · 25 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 33° · 57 % · 27 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 61 % · 21 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 32° · 66 % · 28 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 31° · 62 % · 34 km/h
  9. Sat 7 Very low 31° · 61 % · 39 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

222,146
hectares burned
82 %
of its area
53
fires
2,717
km²

How many times has Sesan burned?

Sesan has burned 53 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Sesan fire, April 2026, with 4,478 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 11× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7. 5× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 14× 26
53
fires
11
years with fire
222,146
cumulative ha
18 Apr 2026
most recent

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 Sesan

  1. 4,478 ha Sesan fire, April 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 4,450 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 2,200 ha Sesan fire, 10 February 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,205 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 2,626 ha Sesan fire, 8 February 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,652 ha in total · 19 days
  4. 297 ha Koun Mom fire, February 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 7,184 ha in total · 15 days
  5. 2,282 ha Sesan fire, 5 February 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,268 ha in total · 17 days
  6. 3,667 ha Siem Pang fire, 26 January 2026 1.4% of the municipality · 22,903 ha in total · 60 days
  7. 2,587 ha Sesan fire, 25 January 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,571 ha in total · 19 days
  8. 100 ha Koun Mom fire, January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,193 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 2,317 ha Sesan fire, 19 January 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,303 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 2,616 ha Sesan fire, 19 January 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,600 ha in total · 24 days
  11. 2,428 ha Sesan fire, 19 January 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,415 ha in total · 11 days
  12. 2,545 ha Sesan fire, 19 January 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,531 ha in total · 16 days
  13. 2,127 ha Sesan fire, 14 January 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,115 ha in total · 14 days
  14. 3,156 ha Sesan fire, 4 January 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,151 ha in total · 36 days
  15. 31,174 ha Sesan fire, December 2025 where it started 11% of the municipality · 30,976 ha in total · 71 days
  16. 2,092 ha Sesan fire, February 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,081 ha in total · 19 days
  17. 4,514 ha Sesan fire, 16 January 2025 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 4,486 ha in total · 24 days
  18. 3,093 ha Sesan fire, 16 January 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,074 ha in total · 22 days
  19. 6,528 ha Sesan fire, February 2024 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 6,614 ha in total · 44 days
  20. 935 ha Koun Mom fire, 14 January 2024 0.3% of the municipality · 3,761 ha in total · 22 days
  21. 6,141 ha Sesan fire, January 2024 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 6,102 ha in total · 28 days
  22. 2,650 ha Sesan fire, December 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,710 ha in total · 24 days
  23. 282 ha Stueng Traeng fire, January 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 4,791 ha in total · 18 days
  24. 2,310 ha Sesan fire, 27 January 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,296 ha in total · 16 days
  25. 2,025 ha Sesan fire, 26 January 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,928 ha in total · 21 days
  26. 2,738 ha Sesan fire, 22 January 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,723 ha in total · 23 days
  27. 11,433 ha Sesan fire, 6 January 2022 where it started 4.2% of the municipality · 11,364 ha in total · 45 days
  28. 2,052 ha Kaoh Nheaek fire, 24 January 2021 0.8% of the municipality · 6,292 ha in total · 22 days
  29. 2,257 ha Sesan fire, 23 January 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,243 ha in total · 23 days
  30. 2,431 ha Sesan fire, 21 January 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,418 ha in total · 19 days
  31. 16,732 ha Sesan fire, 15 January 2021 where it started 6.2% of the municipality · 16,629 ha in total · 31 days
  32. 3,154 ha Sesan fire, February 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,137 ha in total · 27 days
  33. 2,521 ha Sesan fire, January 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,505 ha in total · 18 days
  34. 1,396 ha Stueng Traeng fire, December 2019 0.5% of the municipality · 2,792 ha in total · 26 days
  35. 13,297 ha Sesan fire, December 2019 where it started 4.9% of the municipality · 13,216 ha in total · 51 days
  36. 4,931 ha Sesan fire, 31 December 2018 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 4,901 ha in total · 29 days
  37. 3,467 ha Sesan fire, 30 December 2018 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,449 ha in total · 49 days
  38. 27 ha Kaoh Nheaek fire, February 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 11,343 ha in total · 49 days
  39. 2,374 ha Sesan fire, 18 February 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,361 ha in total · 25 days
  40. 2,875 ha Sesan fire, 18 February 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,859 ha in total · 27 days
  41. 17,323 ha Sesan fire, 29 January 2017 where it started 6.4% of the municipality · 17,221 ha in total · 52 days
  42. 2,100 ha Sesan fire, 29 January 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,089 ha in total · 28 days
  43. 3,989 ha Sesan fire, April 2016 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,965 ha in total · 32 days
  44. 344 ha Koun Mom fire, 25 January 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 2,333 ha in total · 20 days
  45. 539 ha Stueng Traeng fire, 23 January 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 3,259 ha in total · 12 days
  46. 1,985 ha Sesan fire, 19 January 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,049 ha in total · 14 days
  47. 3,143 ha Sesan fire, 19 January 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,124 ha in total · 8 days
  48. 2,390 ha Sesan fire, 18 January 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,376 ha in total · 14 days
  49. 1,120 ha Sambour fire, 16 January 2016 0.4% of the municipality · 18,577 ha in total · 101 days
  50. 1,151 ha Kaoh Nheaek fire, 13 January 2016 0.4% of the municipality · 7,576 ha in total · 15 days
  51. 7,040 ha Sesan fire, 13 January 2016 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 6,998 ha in total · 19 days
  52. 3,401 ha Sesan fire, 1 January 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,458 ha in total · 35 days
  53. 10,763 ha Sesan fire, 1 January 2016 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 10,697 ha in total · 106 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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