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Wildfires in Kuala Langat

Kuala Langat, Malaysia, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 7,256 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.5% 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. Thu 5 Very low 29° · 82 % · 35 km/h
  2. Fri 6 Very low 29° · 89 % · 20 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Very low 29° · 84 % · 25 km/h
  4. Sun 8 Very low 29° · 81 % · 26 km/h
  5. Mon 9 Very low 29° · 82 % · 25 km/h
  6. Tue 10 Very low 29° · 80 % · 29 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Very low 29° · 77 % · 24 km/h
  8. Thu 12 Very low 30° · 77 % · 27 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 Kuala Langat: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

7,256
hectares burned
8.5 %
of its area
6
fires
857
km²

How many times has Kuala Langat burned?

Kuala Langat has burned 6 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Kuala Langat fire, January 2026, with 928 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 7,256 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 4,353 hectares, 5.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
6
fires
5
years with fire
7,256
cumulative ha
4,353
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 Kuala Langat

  1. 928 ha Kuala Langat fire, January 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 922 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 770 ha Kuala Langat fire, February 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 765 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 1,021 ha Kuala Langat fire, April 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,128 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 1,558 ha Kuala Langat fire, 14 March 2019 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,515 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 1,335 ha Kuala Langat fire, 9 March 2019 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,359 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 1,643 ha Kuala Langat fire, March 2016 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,034 ha in total · 35 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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