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Wildfires in Kuantan

Kuantan, Malaysia, has had 13 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 9,684 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.2% 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. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 59 % · 21 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 31° · 58 % · 28 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 83 % · 23 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 31° · 69 % · 24 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Very low 30° · 71 % · 26 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very low 30° · 70 % · 26 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 30° · 71 % · 26 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 29° · 81 % · 32 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

9,684
hectares burned
3.2 %
of its area
13
fires
3,073
km²

How many times has Kuantan burned?

Kuantan has burned 13 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2019, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kuantan fire, April 2026, with 753 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 9,684 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 6,351 hectares, 2.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 7× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
13
fires
5
years with fire
9,684
cumulative ha
6,351
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 Kuantan

  1. 753 ha Kuantan fire, April 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 748 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 816 ha Kuantan fire, March 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 810 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 853 ha Kuantan fire, 5 April 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 847 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 737 ha Kuantan fire, 2 April 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 732 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 689 ha Kuantan fire, July 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 685 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 515 ha Kuantan fire, June 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 512 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 793 ha Kuantan fire, May 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 787 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 1,160 ha Kuantan fire, 16 April 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,152 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 613 ha Kuantan fire, 13 April 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 609 ha in total · 11 days
  10. 838 ha Kuantan fire, 14 March 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 833 ha in total · 11 days
  11. 516 ha Kuantan fire, 13 March 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 512 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 870 ha Kuantan fire, August 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 864 ha in total · 12 days
  13. 532 ha Kuantan fire, April 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 528 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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