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Wildfires in Kelantan

State of Malaysia

Wildfires in Kelantan

Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 08:29 UTC

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Fire history, 2012–2025

Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-23

Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 3,540 km² of Kelantan at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 371 km², ranking 6th of 16 regions of Malaysia.

371 km²detected in an average year
2014busiest year, 935 km²
2025quietest year, 84 km²
Marchpeak month, 26% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 372 km2'122013: 455 km2'132014: 935 km2'142015: 628 km2'152016: 637 km2'162017: 150 km2'172018: 311 km2'182019: 487 km2'192020: 262 km2'202021: 224 km2'212022: 89 km2'222023: 188 km2'232024: 375 km2'242025: 84 km2'25935 km2

Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.

The busiest year was 2014, with 935 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 84 km². The 2021–2025 average is 68% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 3.1%JFebruary: 11%FMarch: 26%MApril: 21%AMay: 13%MJune: 7.6%JJuly: 5.1%JAugust: 5.1%ASeptember: 3.6%SOctober: 2.4%ONovember: 1.1%NDecember: 1.2%D26%

Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.

March, April and May together hold 60% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 10 March 2014, with detections in 41 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 3,540 km² with at least one detection, 9.0% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year2,42069%
2 years79322%
3 to 5 years2908.2%
6 to 10 years300.8%
11 years or more0.00.0%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 5.75, 102.25 and holds 31% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
2012372399
2013455526
20149351,246
2015628843
2016637948
2017150149
2018311349
2019487653
2020262285
2021224216
20228983
2023188172
2024375404
20258481

Other regions of Malaysia

Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.

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