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Wildfires in Ta Veaeng

Ta Veaeng, Cambodia, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 12,533 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.5% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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 6 Low 34° · 36 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sat 7 Low 33° · 42 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sun 8 Low 34° · 40 % · 32 km/h
  4. Mon 9 Moderate 33° · 44 % · 45 km/h
  5. Tue 10 Moderate 32° · 49 % · 51 km/h
  6. Wed 11 Moderate 32° · 47 % · 49 km/h
  7. Thu 12 Very low 33° · 55 % · 42 km/h
  8. Fri 13 Very low 30° · 94 % · 30 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Ta Veaeng: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

12,533
hectares burned
5.5 %
of its area
6
fires
2,285
km²

How many times has Ta Veaeng burned?

Ta Veaeng has burned 6 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Ou Chum fire, 19 March 2026, with 57 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 12,533 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 10,974 hectares, 4.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
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6
fires
3
years with fire
12,533
cumulative ha
10,974
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 Ta Veaeng

  1. 57 ha Ou Chum fire, 19 March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,666 ha in total · 28 days
  2. 2,370 ha Ta Veaeng fire, 15 March 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,896 ha in total · 25 days
  3. 2,011 ha Ta Veaeng fire, 14 March 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,000 ha in total · 23 days
  4. 785 ha Ou Chum fire, 11 March 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 2,303 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 2,320 ha Ta Veaeng fire, March 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,309 ha in total · 17 days
  6. 4,990 ha Ta Veaeng fire, April 2016 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 4,959 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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