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Wildfires in Besut

Besut, Malaysia, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 923 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.7% 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. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 76 % · 19 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 77 % · 17 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 77 % · 26 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 82 % · 19 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 71 % · 21 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 72 % · 28 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 75 % · 26 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 83 % · 23 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

923
hectares burned
0.7 %
of its area
2
fires
1,236
km²

How many times has Besut burned?

Besut has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2019 and 2024. The most recent: Besut fire, May 2024, with 717 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 923 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 828 hectares, 0.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
923
cumulative ha
828
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 Besut

  1. 717 ha Besut fire, May 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 769 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 206 ha Setiu fire, April 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 564 ha in total · 8 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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