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Wildfires in Matu

Matu, Malaysia, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 3,589 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.2% 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. Fri 23 Very low 31° · 74 % · 31 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 30° · 87 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 31° · 79 % · 20 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 74 % · 18 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 80 % · 25 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 69 % · 24 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 69 % · 27 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 95 % · 34 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

3,589
hectares burned
2.2 %
of its area
6
fires
1,597
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Matu

  1. 604 ha Matu fire, April 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 600 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 606 ha Matu fire, August 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 602 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 531 ha Matu fire, June 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 528 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 585 ha Sibu fire, 25 September 2016 0.4% of the municipality · 1,125 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 158 ha Sibu fire, 17 September 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 1,083 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 1,104 ha Matu fire, August 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,898 ha in total · 11 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).