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Wildfires in Pahang
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 08:31 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 8,550 km² of Pahang at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 1,150 km², ranking 3rd of 16 regions of Malaysia.
Year by year
Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.
The busiest year was 2014, with 2,780 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 346 km². The 2021–2025 average is 70% lower than the 2012–2016 average.
Through the year
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 47% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 11 March 2014, with detections in 257 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 8,550 km² with at least one detection, 22% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 4,730 | 55% |
| 2 years | 1,980 | 23% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1,600 | 19% |
| 6 to 10 years | 229 | 2.7% |
| 11 years or more | 8.7 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 3.25, 103.25 and holds 32% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 1,020 | 1,406 |
| 2013 | 1,170 | 1,703 |
| 2014 | 2,780 | 5,322 |
| 2015 | 2,120 | 3,922 |
| 2016 | 2,130 | 3,804 |
| 2017 | 615 | 705 |
| 2018 | 1,220 | 2,126 |
| 2019 | 1,590 | 2,988 |
| 2020 | 796 | 1,085 |
| 2021 | 696 | 970 |
| 2022 | 346 | 473 |
| 2023 | 498 | 800 |
| 2024 | 751 | 1,276 |
| 2025 | 428 | 614 |
Other regions of Malaysia
- Sarawak2,700 km² in an average year
- Sabah1,600 km² in an average year
- Kedah466 km² in an average year
- Johor461 km² in an average year
- Kelantan371 km² in an average year
- Terengganu330 km² in an average year
- How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.
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.
Nearby regions
- Negeri Sembilan124 km
- Melaka157 km
- Terengganu166 km
- Selangor175 km
- Johor248 km
- Riau, Indonesia277 km