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Wildfires in Bintulu

Bintulu, Malaysia, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 1,127 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.6% 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. Mon 2 Very low 31° · 72 % · 23 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 32° · 70 % · 25 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 72 % · 27 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 31° · 74 % · 26 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 31° · 72 % · 22 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 31° · 72 % · 23 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 32° · 69 % · 27 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 31° · 92 % · 28 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

1,127
hectares burned
0.6 %
of its area
2
fires
1,990
km²

How many times has Bintulu burned?

Bintulu has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2019 and 2026. The most recent: Bintulu fire, April 2026, with 567 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
2
fires
2
years with fire
1,127
cumulative ha
18 Apr 2026
most recent

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 Bintulu

  1. 567 ha Bintulu fire, April 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 563 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 560 ha Bintulu fire, April 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 556 ha in total · 6 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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