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Wildfires in Belaga

Belaga, Malaysia, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 3,197 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.2% 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 28° · 76 % · 29 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 29° · 90 % · 16 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 28° · 74 % · 21 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 74 % · 25 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 60 % · 23 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 63 % · 29 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 72 % · 24 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 96 % · 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

3,197
hectares burned
0.2 %
of its area
7
fires
16,270
km²

How many times has Belaga burned?

Belaga has burned 7 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2019, 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Belaga fire, 29 August 2026, with 747 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 3,197 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 2,318 hectares, 0.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 3× 26
7
fires
3
years with fire
3,197
cumulative ha
2,318
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 Belaga

  1. 747 ha Belaga fire, 29 August 2026 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 743 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 537 ha Belaga fire, 11 August 2026 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 534 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 165 ha Tatau fire, 1 August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 507 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 559 ha Belaga fire, July 2021 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 555 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 137 ha Tatau fire, July 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 1,236 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 542 ha Belaga fire, September 2019 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 538 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 510 ha Belaga fire, August 2019 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 507 ha in total · 1 day

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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