Asia-Pacific Fire Statistics of the Global Vegetation Fire Inventory: October 1998
Asia-Pacific Fire Statistics of theGlobal 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
~
Taiwan ~ ~ ~ Thailand
1985, 1986,
1992 – 2000
1 366 079
~
Tonga ~ ~ ~ Tuvalu ~ ~ ~ Vanuatu ~ ~ ~ Vietnam
1980 – 1989
2 175
~
1997 – 1999
6 213
~
Western Samoa
~
~
~
~ = no data available
Back to GVFI