Cambodia tops region for fires detected from space
6 March 2018
Yet again, the Kingdom this year burns brighter than its neighbours, with fires in Cambodia being detected from space at a much higher rate than any other country in the region, according to a NASA report published last week.

It's likely a product of both naturally occurring blazes and also those caused by land clearing, especially on concessions.

Fire season, which runs from January through March, but can extend as late as May, reached its 2018 peak on February 3, when NASA’s Earth Observatory picked up some 1,868 active fires in Cambodia. That compared to 217 in Thailand, 185 in Laos, 114 in Vietnam and 77 in Myanmar.

“The pattern is consistent with recent years," according to a brief report from the public outreach arm of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration. "[T]he instrument has detected four-to-five times as many fires in northern Cambodia as it did in Vietnam and Thailand between August 2016 and February 2018.”
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More fake news by NASA to blemish Cambodia's reputation!!! I've seen these fires numerous times with pics to boot. Usually in "national parks" as well as near land concessions. No, very few if any of them are started by natural causes.