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Wildfires in Penang
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 06:21 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 302 km² of Penang at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 35 km², ranking 13th 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 78 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 14 km². The 2021–2025 average is 51% 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.
January, February and March together hold 61% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 24 February 2014, with detections in 7 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 302 km² with at least one detection, 15% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 192 | 64% |
| 2 years | 64 | 21% |
| 3 to 5 years | 41 | 13% |
| 6 to 10 years | 3.7 | 1.2% |
| 11 years or more | 1.2 | 0.4% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 5.25, 100.25 and holds 72% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 34 | 34 |
| 2013 | 27 | 34 |
| 2014 | 78 | 86 |
| 2015 | 56 | 54 |
| 2016 | 62 | 67 |
| 2017 | 31 | 29 |
| 2018 | 16 | 14 |
| 2019 | 36 | 39 |
| 2020 | 30 | 29 |
| 2021 | 49 | 40 |
| 2022 | 25 | 29 |
| 2023 | 15 | 20 |
| 2024 | 22 | 21 |
| 2025 | 14 | 12 |
Other regions of Malaysia
- Sarawak2,700 km² in an average year
- Sabah1,600 km² in an average year
- Pahang1,150 km² in an average year
- Kedah466 km² in an average year
- Johor461 km² in an average year
- Kelantan371 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.