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Wildfires in Pasir Puteh

Pasir Puteh, Malaysia, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 930 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. Tue 10 Very low 27° · 88 % · 27 km/h
  2. Wed 11 Very low 29° · 80 % · 25 km/h
  3. Thu 12 Very low 28° · 82 % · 18 km/h
  4. Fri 13 Very low 29° · 76 % · 18 km/h
  5. Sat 14 Very low 30° · 74 % · 17 km/h
  6. Sun 15 Very low 29° · 82 % · 26 km/h
  7. Mon 16 Very low 29° · 81 % · 27 km/h
  8. Tue 17 Very low 30° · 75 % · 26 km/h
  9. Wed 18 Very low 29° · 78 % · 31 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Pasir Puteh: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

930
hectares burned
2.2 %
of its area
4
fires
426
km²

How many times has Pasir Puteh burned?

Pasir Puteh has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2019 and 2026. The most recent: Bachok fire, 12 April 2026, with 1 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 930 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 556 hectares, 1.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
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  11. 1× 26
4
fires
3
years with fire
930
cumulative ha
556
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 Pasir Puteh

  1. 1 ha Bachok fire, 12 April 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 605 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 529 ha Pasir Puteh fire, May 2019 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 769 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 44 ha Bachok fire, April 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 1,079 ha in total · 19 days
  4. 356 ha Bachok fire, April 2016 0.8% of the municipality · 1,641 ha in total · 30 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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