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Wildfires in Tatau

Tatau, Malaysia, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 5,291 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.0% 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 30 Very low 32° · 61 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 76 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 72 % · 19 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 33° · 59 % · 18 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 31° · 67 % · 20 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 64 % · 26 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 31° · 73 % · 22 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 31° · 65 % · 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

5,291
hectares burned
1.0 %
of its area
5
fires
5,086
km²

How many times has Tatau burned?

Tatau has burned 5 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Tatau fire, 29 August 2026, with 1,190 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 5,291 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 4,516 hectares, 0.9 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 4× 26
5
fires
2
years with fire
5,291
cumulative ha
4,516
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 Tatau

  1. 1,190 ha Tatau fire, 29 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,182 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 346 ha Tatau fire, 1 August 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 507 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 1,608 ha Tatau fire, 24 March 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,597 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 1,040 ha Tatau fire, 24 March 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,032 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 1,108 ha Tatau fire, July 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,236 ha in total · 3 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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