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Wildfires in Bachok

Bachok, Malaysia, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 3,729 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 13% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

Only fires of 500 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. Sat 24 Very low 32° · 69 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 27° · 93 % · 19 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 28° · 86 % · 24 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 76 % · 19 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 71 % · 19 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 79 % · 22 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 74 % · 24 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 71 % · 26 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

3,729
hectares burned
13 %
of its area
5
fires
279
km²

How many times has Bachok burned?

Bachok has burned 5 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2019 and 2026. The most recent: Bachok fire, 12 April 2026, with 608 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 3,729 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,948 hectares, 7.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
5
fires
3
years with fire
3,729
cumulative ha
1,948
distinct ha

Fires larger than 500 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 Malaysia →

Fires that entered Bachok

  1. 608 ha Bachok fire, 12 April 2026 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 605 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 540 ha Bachok fire, 10 April 2026 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 536 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 245 ha Pasir Puteh fire, April 2019 0.9% of the municipality · 769 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 1,042 ha Bachok fire, April 2019 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 1,079 ha in total · 19 days
  5. 1,295 ha Bachok fire, April 2016 where it started 4.6% of the municipality · 1,641 ha in total · 30 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/geoBoundaries, citypopulation.de (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License). 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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