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Wildfires in Kudat

Kudat, Malaysia, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 4,186 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 25 Very low 28° · 74 % · 23 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 72 % · 22 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 76 % · 27 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 74 % · 31 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 68 % · 33 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 77 % · 24 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 77 % · 25 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 28° · 78 % · 29 km/h
  9. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 71 % · 30 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

4,186
hectares burned
3.2 %
of its area
7
fires
1,291
km²

How many times has Kudat burned?

Kudat has burned 7 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Kudat fire, May 2024, with 640 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,186 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,316 hectares, 2.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
7
fires
5
years with fire
4,186
cumulative ha
3,316
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 Kudat

  1. 640 ha Kudat fire, May 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 635 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 611 ha Kudat fire, April 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 608 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 623 ha Kudat fire, March 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 619 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 513 ha Kudat fire, 5 May 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 510 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 656 ha Kudat fire, 3 May 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 652 ha in total · 13 days
  6. 541 ha Kudat fire, April 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 574 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 602 ha Kudat fire, April 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 598 ha in total · 2 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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