Wildfires in Kelantan
Kelantan, Malaysia: 8 fires with a page have entered 5 of its 11 districts since 2016, burning 6,176 hectares inside the region. The largest was Bachok in April 2016, with 1,652 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
- 6,176ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.4%
- 14,962 km²
- fires
- 8
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 5
- of 11
- Largest fire
- 1,652ha
- Bachok · April 2016
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Thu 29 Very low 31° · 76 % · 21 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 32° · 54 % · 23 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 31° · 67 % · 17 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 32° · 66 % · 20 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 30° · 69 % · 28 km/h
- Tue 3 Very low 31° · 68 % · 22 km/h
- Wed 4 Very low 32° · 70 % · 26 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 31° · 73 % · 26 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 30° · 74 % · 18 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Bachok 3,729 ha · 13 %
- Pasir Puteh 930 ha · 2.2 %
- Gua Musang 717 ha · 0.1 %
- Kuala Krai 538 ha · 0.2 %
- Kecil Lojing 263 ha · 0.1 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 5×Bachok3,729 ha
- 4×Pasir Puteh930 ha
- 2×Gua Musang717 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 1,652 haBachokApril 2016 · 30 days
- 1,086 haBachokApril 2019 · 19 days
- 774 haPasir PutehMay 2019 · 3 days
- 609 haBachok12 April 2026 · 14 days
- 583 haGua MusangFebruary 2021 · 5 days
- 540 haBachok10 April 2026 · 11 days
- 538 haKuala KraiMarch 2020 · 6 days
- 397 haKecil LojingAugust 2018 · 12 days of 604 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 | 1,148 | Bachok 609 ha |
| 2021 | 1 | 583 | Gua Musang 583 ha |
| 2020 | 1 | 538 | Kuala Krai 538 ha |
| 2019 | 2 | 1,859 | Bachok 1,086 ha |
| 2018 | 1 | 397 | Kecil Lojing 397 ha |
| 2016 | 1 | 1,652 | Bachok 1,652 ha |
All fires in Kelantan · 8
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 609 haBachok12 April 2026 · 14 days
- 540 haBachok10 April 2026 · 11 days
- 583 haGua MusangFebruary 2021 · 5 days
- 538 haKuala KraiMarch 2020 · 6 days
- 774 haPasir PutehMay 2019 · 3 days
- 1,086 haBachokApril 2019 · 19 days
- 397 haKecil LojingAugust 2018 · 12 days of 604 ha in total
- 1,652 haBachokApril 2016 · 30 days
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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