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Wildfires in Beaufort

Beaufort, Malaysia, has had 46 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 33,753 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 19% 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. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 65 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 78 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 70 % · 25 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 32° · 59 % · 27 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 32° · 56 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 66 % · 25 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 32° · 65 % · 30 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 31° · 65 % · 28 km/h
  9. Sat 7 Very low 31° · 85 % · 32 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

33,753
hectares burned
19 %
of its area
46
fires
1,816
km²

How many times has Beaufort burned?

Beaufort has burned 46 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Beaufort fire, 24 April 2026, with 1,059 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 33,753 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 19,425 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 20× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 7× 19
  5. 7× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 9× 24
  10.   25
  11. 3× 26
46
fires
5
years with fire
33,753
cumulative ha
19,425
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 Beaufort

  1. 1,059 ha Beaufort fire, 24 April 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,350 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 731 ha Beaufort fire, 21 April 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 726 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 984 ha Beaufort fire, 21 April 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,077 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 535 ha Beaufort fire, April 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 532 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 643 ha Beaufort fire, 23 March 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 639 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 3 ha Kuala Penyu fire, 22 March 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 623 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 565 ha Beaufort fire, 21 March 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 561 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 10 ha Kuala Penyu fire, 13 March 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 702 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 198 ha Kuala Penyu fire, 12 March 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 1,108 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 521 ha Beaufort fire, 12 March 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 517 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 630 ha Beaufort fire, 16 February 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 633 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 616 ha Beaufort fire, 12 February 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 612 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 582 ha Beaufort fire, 2 April 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 578 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 221 ha Beaufort fire, 1 April 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 628 ha in total · 7 days
  15. 238 ha Kuala Penyu fire, March 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 640 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 534 ha Beaufort fire, 21 March 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 530 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 886 ha Beaufort fire, 13 March 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 880 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 217 ha Beaufort fire, 13 March 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 621 ha in total · 9 days
  19. 363 ha Beaufort fire, February 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 513 ha in total · 11 days
  20. 283 ha Beaufort fire, April 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 527 ha in total · 4 days
  21. 272 ha Kuala Penyu fire, March 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 1,169 ha in total · 5 days
  22. 572 ha Beaufort fire, 13 March 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 665 ha in total · 3 days
  23. 681 ha Beaufort fire, 4 March 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 677 ha in total · 3 days
  24. 539 ha Beaufort fire, 27 February 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 535 ha in total · 8 days
  25. 532 ha Beaufort fire, 26 February 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 529 ha in total · 2 days
  26. 425 ha Beaufort fire, 15 February 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 934 ha in total · 2 days
  27. 598 ha Beaufort fire, 18 April 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 594 ha in total · 5 days
  28. 1,011 ha Beaufort fire, 18 April 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,004 ha in total · 5 days
  29. 1,428 ha Beaufort fire, 17 April 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,531 ha in total · 8 days
  30. 645 ha Beaufort fire, 16 April 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 640 ha in total · 7 days
  31. 203 ha Kuala Penyu fire, April 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 983 ha in total · 7 days
  32. 669 ha Beaufort fire, 3 April 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 665 ha in total · 7 days
  33. 624 ha Beaufort fire, 2 April 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 620 ha in total · 7 days
  34. 670 ha Beaufort fire, 1 April 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 665 ha in total · 4 days
  35. 738 ha Beaufort fire, 23 March 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 733 ha in total · 9 days
  36. 316 ha Kuala Penyu fire, 20 March 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 2,564 ha in total · 30 days
  37. 1,514 ha Beaufort fire, 20 March 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,504 ha in total · 21 days
  38. 606 ha Beaufort fire, 18 March 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,486 ha in total · 23 days
  39. 7,509 ha Beaufort fire, 15 March 2016 where it started 4.1% of the municipality · 8,047 ha in total · 26 days
  40. 804 ha Beaufort fire, 2 March 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 799 ha in total · 10 days
  41. 254 ha Kuala Penyu fire, 1 March 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 640 ha in total · 4 days
  42. 833 ha Beaufort fire, 21 February 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 827 ha in total · 6 days
  43. 727 ha Beaufort fire, 20 February 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 723 ha in total · 12 days
  44. 783 ha Beaufort fire, 19 February 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 777 ha in total · 7 days
  45. 43 ha Papar fire, 10 February 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 718 ha in total · 15 days
  46. 936 ha Beaufort fire, January 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,440 ha in total · 5 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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