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Wildfires in Miri

Miri, Malaysia, has had 24 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 20,846 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.9% 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 29° · 86 % · 22 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 31° · 60 % · 29 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 32° · 64 % · 28 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 60 % · 25 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 60 % · 19 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 63 % · 27 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 71 % · 27 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 65 % · 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

20,846
hectares burned
3.9 %
of its area
24
fires
5,317
km²

How many times has Miri burned?

Miri has burned 24 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Miri fire, 7 August 2026, with 523 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 20,846 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 11,597 hectares, 2.2 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 8× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 3× 26
24
fires
8
years with fire
20,846
cumulative ha
11,597
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 Miri

  1. 523 ha Miri fire, 7 August 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 520 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 146 ha Telang Usan fire, 6 August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 545 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 519 ha Miri fire, 4 August 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 516 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 819 ha Miri fire, July 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 814 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 704 ha Miri fire, July 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 700 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 636 ha Miri fire, 27 March 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 631 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 709 ha Miri fire, 22 March 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 704 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 503 ha Miri fire, June 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 500 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 555 ha Miri fire, 28 July 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 552 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 595 ha Miri fire, 24 July 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 591 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 1,428 ha Miri fire, 22 February 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,417 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 565 ha Miri fire, 21 February 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 561 ha in total · 11 days
  13. 736 ha Miri fire, September 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 731 ha in total · 7 days
  14. 2,746 ha Miri fire, August 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,725 ha in total · 13 days
  15. 301 ha Miri fire, 21 April 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 724 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 1,723 ha Miri fire, 11 April 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,710 ha in total · 10 days
  17. 1,197 ha Miri fire, 27 March 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,188 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 1,957 ha Miri fire, 16 March 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,942 ha in total · 18 days
  19. 468 ha Miri fire, 12 March 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,065 ha in total · 18 days
  20. 536 ha Miri fire, 10 March 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 532 ha in total · 14 days
  21. 812 ha Miri fire, 10 March 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 806 ha in total · 3 days
  22. 1,921 ha Miri fire, 21 February 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,909 ha in total · 11 days
  23. 0 ha Marudi fire, 20 February 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,835 ha in total · 11 days
  24. 745 ha Miri fire, 19 February 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 739 ha in total · 9 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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