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Wildfires in Sarawak

Sarawak, Malaysia: 86 fires with a page have entered 22 of its 40 districts since 2016, burning 76,268 hectares inside the region. The largest was Betong in July 2018, with 2,845 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.

These figures leave out one page with faulty data, under review. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
76,268ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.6%
124,582 km²
fires
86
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
22
of 40
Largest fire
2,845ha
Betong · July 2018
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 7 Very low 30° · 75 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sun 8 Very low 31° · 70 % · 28 km/h
  3. Mon 9 Very low 30° · 78 % · 26 km/h
  4. Tue 10 Very low 30° · 77 % · 25 km/h
  5. Wed 11 Very low 30° · 69 % · 26 km/h
  6. Thu 12 Very low 30° · 76 % · 25 km/h
  7. Fri 13 Very low 30° · 78 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sat 14 Very low 30° · 89 % · 28 km/h

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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. Miri 18,889 ha · 3.6 %
  2. Sibu 8,084 ha · 3.7 %
  3. Mukah 7,028 ha · 2.9 %
  4. Telang Usan 5,947 ha · 0.6 %
  5. Tatau 5,291 ha · 1.0 %
  6. Matu 3,589 ha · 2.2 %
  7. Sri Aman 3,531 ha · 1.5 %
  8. Sebauh 3,292 ha · 0.6 %
  9. Belaga 3,197 ha · 0.2 %
  10. Subis 3,019 ha · 0.8 %
  11. Beluru 2,154 ha · 0.4 %
  12. Marudi 1,893 ha · 0.6 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (500 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
20262016,730 Sebauh 2,714 ha
202555,414 Mukah 1,541 ha
202442,895 Beluru 846 ha
202321,839 Telang Usan 1,336 ha
20221610 Tebedu 610 ha
202153,493 Tatau 1,245 ha
202033,024 Miri 1,428 ha
20191411,410 Miri 2,746 ha
20181211,140 Betong 2,845 ha
201765,391 Sibu 1,875 ha
20161414,320 Miri 1,921 ha

All fires in Sarawak · 87

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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