Asia-Pacific Fire Statistics of the Global Vegetation Fire Inventory

September 2002


Country

Time Period Average Area Burned Annually (in ha) Average 
No. of Fires 
Australia

1983-1996

476 719 (wildfire)
600 783 (prescribed)

 

1998/1999

31 200 000

 

1999/2000

71 200 000

 

2001

80 090 000

 

2002

65 918 500

~

Bahrain ~ ~ ~
Bangladesh 1998 1 500 ~
Brunei Darussalam

1995

23

~

Cambodia ~ ~ ~
Cook Islands ~ ~ ~
Fiji 1987

12 865

~

French Polynesia ~ ~ ~
Guam ~ ~ ~
Hong Kong ~ ~ ~
India 1980 - 1981; 1985 - 1987 75 292 ~
1990-1999 3 730 000 ~
Indonesia 1982 - 1994 500 802 ~
1997 / 1998 5 200 000 ~
Kiribati ~ ~ ~
Laos ~ ~ ~
Malaysia 1992 - 1996

161

~

1992, 1995 - 1998

1 968

~

Marshall Islands ~ ~ ~
Maldives ~ ~ ~
Micronesia, Fed Stat ~ ~ ~
Myanmar ~ ~ ~
Nepal   > 400 000 ~
Nauru ~ ~ ~
New Caledonia ~ ~ ~
New Zealand 1990 - 2000 6 177 214
Niue ~ ~ ~
Northern Mariana Islands ~ ~ ~
Papua New Guinea ~ ~ ~
Philippines

1980 - 1993; 1995

18 675

~

1993 - 1997

15 941

~

Palau Islands ~ ~ ~
Singapore ~ ~ ~
Solomon Islands ~ ~ ~
Sri Lanka

1990 - 1999

323

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Taiwan ~ ~ ~
Thailand

1985, 1986,
1992 - 2000

1 366 079

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Tonga ~ ~ ~
Tuvalu ~ ~ ~
Vanuatu ~ ~ ~
Vietnam

1980 - 1989

2 175

~

1997 - 1999

6 213

~

Western Samoa

~

~

~

~  =  no data available


 

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