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Wildfires in Besao

Besao, Philippines, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2023: 5,285 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 40% 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. Sat 24 Very low 26° · 73 % · 32 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 26° · 76 % · 27 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 27° · 70 % · 27 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 62 % · 26 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 59 % · 25 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 63 % · 26 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 79 % · 27 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 76 % · 25 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

5,285
hectares burned
40 %
of its area
5
fires
131
km²

How many times has Besao burned?

Besao has burned 5 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Tadian fire, March 2026, with 201 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 5,285 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 4,534 hectares, 34 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 4× 26
5
fires
2
years with fire
5,285
cumulative ha
4,534
distinct ha

Fires larger than 1,000 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 Philippines →

Fires that entered Besao

  1. 201 ha Tadian fire, March 2026 1.5% of the municipality · 1,079 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 2,178 ha Quirino fire, March 2026 17% of the municipality · 3,085 ha in total · 27 days
  3. 462 ha Bontoc fire, 25 March 2026 3.5% of the municipality · 1,687 ha in total · 22 days
  4. 1,015 ha Besao fire, March 2026 where it started 7.7% of the municipality · 1,009 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 1,430 ha Besao fire, February 2023 where it started 11% of the municipality · 1,422 ha in total · 10 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).

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