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Wildfires in Balabac

Balabac, Philippines, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2017: 1,129 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.0% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

Only fires of 1,000 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 29° · 74 % · 32 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 29° · 74 % · 28 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 28° · 81 % · 26 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 73 % · 19 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 75 % · 33 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 74 % · 35 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 71 % · 34 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 73 % · 30 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

1,129
hectares burned
2.0 %
of its area
1
fires
560
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Balabac

  1. 1,129 ha Balabac fire, April 2017 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 1,121 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/National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA), Philippines Statistics Authority (PSA), OCHA Philippines (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).