Incident Report and Analysis of the 2021 Cox’s Bazar Rohingya Refugee Camp Fire in Bangladesh

Abstract According to the UN Refugee Agency, roughly 980,000 people live in Cox’s Bazar region Bangladesh, making it largest and most densely populated refugee camp world. The number of fires this settlement rapidly increased 2021. On 22 March, a large fire event occurred, where 15 fatalities 560 injuries were reported, more than 9500 homes affected leaving 45,000 homeless. This work seeks reconstruct incident based on firefighters’ statements, information found media, satellite imagery. study shows that (a) spread extremely fast, with linear rates between 79 310 m/h an average areal rate 92,850 m 2 /h estimated, (b) firefighters performed two main operations, firefighting creation barriers, (c) residents self-evacuated, deciding when evacuate, (d) residents’ actions similar what has been observed residential fires, several mentioning looking for missing family members. Fire is analogous wildland conflagrations across areas combustible material. can be used planning future large-scale incidents tented camps, proactively seeking ways mitigating their impact. first detailed documentation such academic literature.