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Wildfires in Mukah

Mukah, Malaysia, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 7,028 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.9% 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. Tue 27 Very low 32° · 60 % · 30 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 67 % · 28 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 65 % · 26 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 66 % · 23 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 75 % · 27 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 75 % · 26 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 32° · 69 % · 23 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 84 % · 19 km/h
  9. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 70 % · 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

7,028
hectares burned
2.9 %
of its area
7
fires
2,446
km²

How many times has Mukah burned?

Mukah has burned 7 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2018, 2019 and 2025. The most recent: Mukah fire, 24 July 2025, with 1,167 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 7,028 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,895 hectares, 2.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 4× 25
  11.   26
7
fires
3
years with fire
7,028
cumulative ha
5,895
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 Mukah

  1. 1,167 ha Mukah fire, 24 July 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,159 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 1,541 ha Mukah fire, 20 July 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,531 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 553 ha Mukah fire, 22 May 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 549 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 1,334 ha Mukah fire, 9 May 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,325 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 516 ha Mukah fire, August 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 513 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 582 ha Mukah fire, 12 August 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 578 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 1,336 ha Mukah fire, 10 August 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,327 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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