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Aunglan fire, 2 March 2026 Aunglan, Sinbaungwe

Out · last detection 4 Apr 2026, 06:19 UTC

The fire started on 2 March 2026 in Aunglan, Myanmar, and satellites saw it burning for 33 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 10,700 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 13th largest in Magway since 2016 (of 190 with a page). Number 43 in Myanmar in 2026, of 480.

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Burnt area
10,700ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
33days
2 Mar 2026 – 3 Apr 2026
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
2 Mar
2026
Heat detections
293
in a single hotspot: 181 MW
Danger at start
36
High · FWI index
Average daily power
204MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 2 Mar3 Apr
4 Apr 2026

How it evolved, day by day

2 Mar 2026 · 20 MW · 11 5 Mar 2026 · 10 MW · 6 6 Mar 2026 · 19 MW · 7 7 Mar 2026 · 18 MW · 3 8 Mar 2026 · 1 MW · 1 9 Mar 2026 · 143 MW · 10 13 Mar 2026 · 16 MW · 3 14 Mar 2026 · 1 MW · 1 15 Mar 2026 · 66 MW · 19 16 Mar 2026 · 829 MW · 51 17 Mar 2026 · 122 MW · 20 18 Mar 2026 · 166 MW · 9 20 Mar 2026 · 453 MW · 33 21 Mar 2026 · 292 MW · 11 23 Mar 2026 · 19 MW · 9 24 Mar 2026 · 68 MW · 10 25 Mar 2026 · 324 MW · 10 27 Mar 2026 · 2,455 MW · 64 28 Mar 2026 · 41 MW · 7 29 Mar 2026 · 11 MW · 3 30 Mar 2026 · 4 MW · 1 1 Apr 2026 · 7 MW · 1 2 Apr 2026 · 1 MW · 1 3 Apr 2026 · 4 MW · 1 4 Apr 2026 · 2 MW · 1
2 Mar 8 Mar 15 Mar 20 Mar 25 Mar 27 Mar 30 Mar 4 Apr

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

41°high
40km/h · peak gust
21%lowest humidity

It had gone more than two months without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

58% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 103 ha in 2016, 651 ha in 2017, 2,177 ha in 2020, 2,196 ha in 2021, 1 ha in 2022, 1,453 ha in 2023, 2,879 ha in 2024, 1,430 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 6,228 ha that had burned before.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 6.8% of the area of London (107 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

  1. Aunglan where it started
    9,083 ha reached on 2 Mar
    3.4 %
  2. Sinbaungwe
    1,683 ha reached on 2 Mar
    0.8 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

People and buildings inside the perimeter

GHSL 2025
Built-up area7.4 ha
Residents≈ 1,500

Inside the perimeter there were about 7.4 hectares of built-up land and about 1,500 residents (GHSL 2025, satellite-based estimate).

This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.

Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu

The weather day by day

ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
2 Mar 36.1 °C 29 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
3 Mar 36.8 °C 28 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
4 Mar 36.1 °C 29 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
5 Mar 36.6 °C 28 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
6 Mar 35.5 °C 35 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
7 Mar 37.3 °C 31 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
8 Mar 38.2 °C 21 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
9 Mar 39.5 °C 24 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
10 Mar 38.9 °C 26 % 27 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 41
11 Mar 37.7 °C 27 % 34 km/h 1.4 mm High 34
12 Mar 36.5 °C 30 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
13 Mar 35.9 °C 29 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
14 Mar 35.7 °C 35 % 40 km/h 2.0 mm High 23
15 Mar 37.1 °C 30 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
16 Mar 37.2 °C 27 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
17 Mar 36.5 °C 26 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
18 Mar 38.5 °C 25 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
19 Mar 38.6 °C 27 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
20 Mar 37.2 °C 28 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
21 Mar 38.0 °C 30 % 28 km/h 0.3 mm Very high 39
22 Mar 36.6 °C 31 % 36 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 41
23 Mar 36.7 °C 27 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
24 Mar 37.3 °C 27 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
25 Mar 39.0 °C 23 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
26 Mar 39.4 °C 27 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
27 Mar 39.8 °C 26 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
28 Mar 39.6 °C 25 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
29 Mar 39.5 °C 26 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
30 Mar 40.1 °C 25 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
31 Mar 40.7 °C 29 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
1 Apr 40.7 °C 27 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
2 Apr 41.2 °C 25 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
3 Apr 41.1 °C 29 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
4 Apr after 39.9 °C 32 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
5 Apr after 39.8 °C 37 % 31 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 39
6 Apr after 38.8 °C 36 % 30 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 41
7 Apr after 37.6 °C 35 % 36 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 40
8 Apr after 37.9 °C 33 % 38 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 39
9 Apr after 38.2 °C 31 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
10 Apr after 36.8 °C 37 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
11 Apr after 38.6 °C 24 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
12 Apr after 39.4 °C 27 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
13 Apr after 40.1 °C 29 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 23 Feb 2026
After · 10 Apr 2026

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 26 March 2026 the air beside the fire reached 118 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 62: 4.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak118 µg/m³
Days over the guideline25 days
PM10128 µg/m³
Optical depth1.19
789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930311
Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

Detections table · 293Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
Date and timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Aunglan fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 2 March 2026 to 3 April 2026 (33 days). The perimeter dates it from 9 March 2026 to 29 March 2026.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 10,700 hectares (107.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Aunglan (9,083 ha, 3.4 %); Sinbaungwe (1,683 ha, 0.8 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 41.2 °C, humidity dropped to 21 % and gusts hit 40 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 45, class Very high.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Myanmar (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

Where to verify it

A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.

Satellite cross-check

History of this page · 2 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
  1. Last day with fire: 29 March 2026 → 3 April 2026.
  2. Start date: 9 March 2026 → 2 March 2026.

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery; 3 polygons grouped in this page.
  • Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 9 March 2026 to 29 March 2026. 293 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • We have not matched this page with any official record.
  • Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
  • Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.

How we build fire pages: methodology ›

Where this data comes from

The perimeter comes from the Copernicus Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS), which rebuilds it from MODIS and VIIRS heat detections and publishes it under CC BY 4.0. It is not measured on imagery as in Europe, so it is an estimate. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM3 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ from each country’s official figure.