Wildfires in Kedah
Kedah, Malaysia: 4 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 12 districts since 2016, burning 1,914 hectares inside the region. The largest was Kubang Pasu in March 2016, with 803 hectares inside the region. 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.
- hectares burned
- 1,914ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.2%
- 9,538 km²
- fires
- 4
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 3
- of 12
- Largest fire
- 803ha
- Kubang Pasu · March 2016
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sun 1 Very low 31° · 74 % · 16 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 32° · 62 % · 21 km/h
- Tue 3 Very low 31° · 67 % · 18 km/h
- Wed 4 Very low 31° · 68 % · 17 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 30° · 78 % · 23 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 30° · 78 % · 24 km/h
- Sat 7 Very low 31° · 69 % · 27 km/h
- Sun 8 Very low 30° · 91 % · 25 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Kubang Pasu 1,460 ha · 1.5 %
- Kota Setar 328 ha · 0.8 %
- Padang Terap 125 ha · 0.1 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 4×Kubang Pasu1,460 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 803 haKubang PasuMarch 2016 · 3 days
- 551 haKubang PasuMarch 2026 · 4 days
- 524 haKota SetarMarch 2026 · 4 days
- 37 haPerlisFebruary 2024 · 3 days of 533 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 1,075 | Kubang Pasu 551 ha |
| 2024 | 1 | 37 | Perlis 37 ha |
| 2016 | 1 | 803 | Kubang Pasu 803 ha |
All fires in Kedah · 4
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
Where this data comes from
Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/OpenStreetMap, Wambacher (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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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