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Wildfires in Sibu

Sibu, Malaysia, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 8,084 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.7% 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 29° · 88 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 31° · 71 % · 17 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 32° · 67 % · 16 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 71 % · 21 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 65 % · 28 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 76 % · 27 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 81 % · 23 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 31° · 70 % · 22 km/h
  9. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 70 % · 22 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

8,084
hectares burned
3.7 %
of its area
9
fires
2,176
km²

How many times has Sibu burned?

Sibu has burned 9 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2017 and 2018. The most recent: Sibu fire, August 2018, with 898 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 8,084 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 4,818 hectares, 2.2 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
9
fires
3
years with fire
8,084
cumulative ha
4,818
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 Sibu

  1. 898 ha Sibu fire, August 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 892 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 510 ha Sibu fire, September 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 507 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 1,108 ha Sibu fire, July 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,101 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 772 ha Sibu fire, February 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 767 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 1,875 ha Sibu fire, January 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,862 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 634 ha Sibu fire, December 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 630 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 547 ha Matu fire, September 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 1,125 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 933 ha Sibu fire, September 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,083 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 806 ha Matu fire, August 2016 0.4% of the municipality · 1,898 ha in total · 18 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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