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Wildfires in Keningau

Keningau, Malaysia, has had 16 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 13,972 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.8% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 13 Very low 30° · 65 % · 32 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Very low 32° · 56 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Very low 31° · 59 % · 28 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Very low 30° · 69 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Very low 30° · 71 % · 26 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Very low 30° · 66 % · 32 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Very low 30° · 66 % · 30 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Very low 31° · 68 % · 27 km/h
  9. Sat 21 Very low 30° · 65 % · 22 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Keningau: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

13,972
hectares burned
3.8 %
of its area
16
fires
3,679
km²

How many times has Keningau burned?

Keningau has burned 16 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2019 and 2024. The most recent: Keningau fire, March 2024, with 590 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 14× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
16
fires
3
years with fire
13,972
cumulative ha
26 Mar 2024
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 Keningau

  1. 590 ha Keningau fire, March 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 586 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 599 ha Keningau fire, March 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 595 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 1,063 ha Keningau fire, 7 April 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,056 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 714 ha Keningau fire, 6 April 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 709 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 619 ha Keningau fire, 5 April 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 614 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 554 ha Keningau fire, 2 April 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 550 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 1,575 ha Keningau fire, 1 April 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,565 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 676 ha Keningau fire, 28 March 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 672 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 445 ha Tongod fire, 27 March 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 4,421 ha in total · 13 days
  10. 319 ha Keningau fire, 20 March 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 519 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 1,891 ha Keningau fire, 17 March 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,879 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 1,345 ha Keningau fire, 11 March 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,337 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 926 ha Keningau fire, 10 March 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 920 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 940 ha Keningau fire, 6 March 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 934 ha in total · 8 days
  15. 540 ha Keningau fire, 23 February 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 536 ha in total · 1 day
  16. 1,176 ha Keningau fire, 20 February 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,168 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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