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Wildfires in Pitas

Pitas, Malaysia, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 9,458 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.2% 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 30° · 72 % · 31 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 30° · 74 % · 24 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 29° · 76 % · 16 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 77 % · 18 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 76 % · 21 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 69 % · 28 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 33° · 59 % · 32 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 81 % · 29 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

9,458
hectares burned
6.2 %
of its area
12
fires
1,523
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Pitas

  1. 507 ha Pitas fire, 7 May 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 503 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,484 ha Pitas fire, 6 May 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,474 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 770 ha Pitas fire, 4 May 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 765 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 685 ha Pitas fire, 6 May 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 680 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 766 ha Pitas fire, 5 May 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 761 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 639 ha Pitas fire, September 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 635 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 773 ha Pitas fire, 27 August 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 768 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 557 ha Pitas fire, 15 August 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 553 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 1,210 ha Pitas fire, 11 May 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,202 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 665 ha Pitas fire, 8 May 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 661 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 546 ha Pitas fire, 16 April 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 542 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 856 ha Pitas fire, 3 April 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 850 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).