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Wildfires in Perak
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 3,110 km² of Perak at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 319 km², ranking 8th 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 869 km² detected; the quietest was 2023, with 130 km². The 2021–2025 average is 66% 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 51% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 11 March 2014, with detections in 69 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 3,110 km² with at least one detection, 8.8% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 2,270 | 73% |
| 2 years | 572 | 18% |
| 3 to 5 years | 251 | 8.1% |
| 6 to 10 years | 21 | 0.7% |
| 11 years or more | 2.4 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 4.25, 100.75 and holds 19% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 458 | 467 |
| 2013 | 332 | 349 |
| 2014 | 869 | 1,095 |
| 2015 | 354 | 380 |
| 2016 | 543 | 594 |
| 2017 | 236 | 221 |
| 2018 | 246 | 229 |
| 2019 | 315 | 300 |
| 2020 | 233 | 218 |
| 2021 | 263 | 236 |
| 2022 | 175 | 166 |
| 2023 | 130 | 122 |
| 2024 | 156 | 144 |
| 2025 | 152 | 146 |
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.
Nearby regions
- Selangor200 km
- Kedah229 km
- Perlis229 km
- Kelantan235 km
- Negeri Sembilan235 km
- Narathiwat, Thailand248 km