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Wildfires in Setiu

Setiu, Malaysia, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 3,936 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. Fri 23 Very low 31° · 65 % · 19 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 29° · 81 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 30° · 70 % · 27 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 81 % · 27 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 86 % · 24 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 85 % · 20 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 79 % · 21 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 71 % · 21 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

3,936
hectares burned
2.9 %
of its area
7
fires
1,346
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Setiu

  1. 504 ha Setiu fire, August 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 500 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 57 ha Besut fire, May 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 769 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 798 ha Setiu fire, April 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 804 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 323 ha Kuala Nerus fire, April 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 864 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 362 ha Setiu fire, April 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 564 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 669 ha Setiu fire, March 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 665 ha in total · 11 days
  7. 1,222 ha Setiu fire, May 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,214 ha in total · 11 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).