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Mindon fire, March 2016 Mindon, Minhla

Out · last detection 22 Mar 2016, 06:31 UTC

The fire started on 17 March 2016 in Mindon, Myanmar (Burma), and satellites saw it burning for 5 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,119 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 161th largest in Magway since 2016 (of 189 with a page). Number 106 in Myanmar (Burma) in 2016, of 119.

Burnt area
2,119ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
5days
17 Mar 2016 – 21 Mar 2016
Municipalities hit
2
municipalities
Started on
17 Mar
2016
Heat detections
62
in a single hotspot: 149 MW
Energy released
1.6GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

22 Mar 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 17 Mar21 Mar

How it evolved, day by day

1719202122

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

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

  1. Mindon where it started
    1,739 ha reached on 17 Mar
    0.7 %
  2. Minhla
    394 ha reached on 19 Mar
    0.2 %

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

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 10 Mar 2016
After · 28 Mar 2016

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

Detections table · 62Every 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 Mindon fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 17 March 2016 and 21 March 2016: 5 days between the first and last heat detection of the perimeter.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 2,119 hectares (21.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Mindon (1,739 ha, 0.7 %); Minhla (394 ha, 0.2 %).
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Myanmar (Burma) (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.

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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.