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Wildfires in Rompin

Rompin, Malaysia, has had 22 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 19,786 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.8% 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. Sat 24 Very low 30° · 70 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 30° · 70 % · 25 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 79 % · 25 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 73 % · 21 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 77 % · 22 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 79 % · 23 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 76 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 76 % · 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

19,786
hectares burned
3.8 %
of its area
22
fires
5,248
km²

How many times has Rompin burned?

Rompin has burned 22 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Rompin fire, March 2026, with 1,267 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 19,786 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 14,051 hectares, 2.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 7× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 7× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 1× 26
22
fires
8
years with fire
19,786
cumulative ha
14,051
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 Rompin

  1. 1,267 ha Rompin fire, March 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,259 ha in total · 17 days
  2. 714 ha Rompin fire, 19 July 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 825 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 1,085 ha Rompin fire, 19 July 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,078 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 1,051 ha Rompin fire, April 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,044 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 3,575 ha Pekan fire, 18 March 2024 0.7% of the municipality · 4,458 ha in total · 23 days
  6. 1,041 ha Rompin fire, March 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,037 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 516 ha Rompin fire, August 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 527 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 102 ha Pekan fire, 23 May 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 617 ha in total · 9 days
  9. 529 ha Rompin fire, May 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 525 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 601 ha Rompin fire, April 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 597 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 777 ha Rompin fire, 15 March 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 772 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 856 ha Rompin fire, 7 March 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 851 ha in total · 12 days
  13. 1,118 ha Pekan fire, 7 March 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 1,365 ha in total · 13 days
  14. 549 ha Rompin fire, September 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 545 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 570 ha Rompin fire, June 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 584 ha in total · 3 days
  16. 556 ha Rompin fire, September 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 552 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 606 ha Rompin fire, August 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 602 ha in total · 1 day
  18. 520 ha Rompin fire, July 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 517 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 725 ha Rompin fire, 30 April 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 720 ha in total · 6 days
  20. 593 ha Rompin fire, 28 April 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 589 ha in total · 13 days
  21. 1,096 ha Rompin fire, 26 April 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,089 ha in total · 11 days
  22. 1,342 ha Rompin fire, 19 April 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,333 ha in total · 22 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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