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Wildfires in Sabah

Sabah, Malaysia: 106 fires with a page have entered 12 of its 26 districts since 2016, burning 95,535 hectares inside the region. The largest was Beaufort in 15 March 2016, with 8,102 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
95,535ha
Since 2016
Of the region
1.3%
74,490 km²
fires
106
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
12
of 26
Largest fire
8,102ha
Beaufort · 15 March 2016
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 64 % · 25 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 53 % · 20 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 64 % · 23 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 31° · 67 % · 16 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 70 % · 21 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 69 % · 26 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 32° · 61 % · 26 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 31° · 66 % · 28 km/h
  9. Thu 5 Very low 31° · 69 % · 29 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Beaufort 33,753 ha · 19 %
  2. Keningau 13,972 ha · 3.8 %
  3. Kuala Penyu 13,603 ha · 34 %
  4. Pitas 9,458 ha · 6.2 %
  5. Tongod 6,851 ha · 0.7 %
  6. Beluran 6,008 ha · 1.1 %
  7. Papar 4,536 ha · 3.5 %
  8. Kota Belud 4,109 ha · 3.1 %
  9. Kalabakan 1,239 ha · 0.3 %
  10. Sipitang 1,180 ha · 0.5 %
  11. Tambunan 622 ha · 0.5 %
  12. Nabawan / Persiangan 204 ha · 0.0 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
202643,762 Beaufort 1,359 ha
20242215,302 Pitas 1,484 ha
2020116,646 Beaufort 886 ha
2019149,878 Kuala Penyu 1,177 ha
201831,969 Pitas 773 ha
20165257,980 Beaufort 8,102 ha

All fires in Sabah · 106

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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