Wildfires in Mersing
Mersing, Malaysia, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 3,371 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.2% 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- Fri 23 Very low 32° · 63 % · 21 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 30° · 67 % · 21 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 29° · 83 % · 17 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 28° · 83 % · 19 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 30° · 73 % · 25 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 28° · 76 % · 20 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 29° · 75 % · 23 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 29° · 74 % · 21 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
- 3,371
- hectares burned
- 1.2 %
- of its area
- 5
- fires
- 2,868
- km²
Hectares per year
Fires that entered Mersing
- 552 ha Mersing fire, March 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 548 ha in total · 7 days
- 587 ha Mersing fire, February 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 583 ha in total · 15 days
- 924 ha Mersing fire, March 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 918 ha in total · 4 days
- 803 ha Mersing fire, May 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 797 ha in total · 6 days
- 505 ha Mersing fire, April 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 501 ha in total · 4 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).