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Wildfires in Siem Bouk

Siem Bouk, Cambodia, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 13,209 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.0% 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. Tue 27 Low 32° · 54 % · 32 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 56 % · 32 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 59 % · 27 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 66 % · 28 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 64 % · 41 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 62 % · 32 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 32° · 58 % · 35 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 32° · 60 % · 33 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

13,209
hectares burned
9.0 %
of its area
11
fires
1,469
km²

How many times has Siem Bouk burned?

Siem Bouk has burned 11 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Thala Barivat fire, March 2026, with 107 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 13,209 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 9,935 hectares, 6.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 3× 26
11
fires
7
years with fire
13,209
cumulative ha
9,935
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 Siem Bouk

  1. 107 ha Thala Barivat fire, March 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 2,012 ha in total · 18 days
  2. 3,013 ha Siem Bouk fire, March 2026 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,997 ha in total · 45 days
  3. 4,247 ha Siem Bouk fire, February 2026 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 4,223 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 3,107 ha Siem Bouk fire, February 2025 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 3,089 ha in total · 15 days
  5. 459 ha Sambour fire, 25 January 2023 0.3% of the municipality · 2,520 ha in total · 26 days
  6. 74 ha Thala Barivat fire, 23 February 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 2,168 ha in total · 17 days
  7. 740 ha Thala Barivat fire, 11 February 2021 0.5% of the municipality · 4,764 ha in total · 20 days
  8. 64 ha Thala Barivat fire, 18 February 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,269 ha in total · 14 days
  9. 395 ha Thala Barivat fire, 6 February 2020 0.3% of the municipality · 16,056 ha in total · 30 days
  10. 593 ha Thala Barivat fire, 14 January 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 2,212 ha in total · 30 days
  11. 410 ha Thala Barivat fire, 19 January 2019 0.3% of the municipality · 2,010 ha in total · 15 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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