Fire prevention involves fire risk monitoring in the entire forest reserve areas in the state of Sabah.

Apart from frequent patrolling by the field staff, the Department uses an important tool for fire prevention known as Fire Danger Rating System (FDRS).  The system is used to monitor the risk of forest fire outbreak during prolonged drought.  It provides an indication of the ability of a fire to start, spread and cause damage.  Therefore, it gives early warning of serious fire problems, so that prevention and preparedness measures can be stepped up before the fire situation gets worse. 

Details on forest fire management are provided at the following link:

Link to: Forest Fire Management in Sabah (607KB in PDF Format)