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Mindon fire, 18 March 2025 Mindon

Out · last detection 20 Mar 2025, 06:37 UTC

The fire started on 18 March 2025 in Mindon, Myanmar, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,008 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 189th largest in Magway since 2016 (of 190 with a page). Number 135 in Myanmar in 2025, of 135.

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Burnt area
2,008ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
3days
18 Mar 2025 – 20 Mar 2025
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
18 Mar
2025
Heat detections
54
in a single hotspot: 42 MW
Average daily power
175MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

20 Mar 2025
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 18 Mar20 Mar

How it evolved, day by day

18 Mar 2025 · 302 MW · 30 19 Mar 2025 · 217 MW · 21 20 Mar 2025 · 6 MW · 1
18 Mar 19 Mar 20 Mar

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

This area had burned before

70% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 814 ha in 2016, 863 ha in 2021, 299 ha in 2022, 2 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 1,401 ha that had burned before.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 1.3% of the area of London (20 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. Mindon where it started
    2,019 ha
    0.8 %

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 · 11 Mar 2025
After · 27 Mar 2025

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 22 March 2025 the air beside the fire reached 46 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 41: 2.7 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak46 µg/m³
Days over the guideline8 days
PM1052 µg/m³
Optical depth0.88
1617181920212223
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 · 54Every 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 18 March 2025 and 20 March 2025: 3 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 2,008 hectares (20.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Mindon (2,019 ha, 0.8 %).
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.

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
  • Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 54 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • We have not matched this page with any official record.

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.