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Mindon fire, 11 February 2026 Mindon

Out · last detection 19 Feb 2026, 19:13 UTC

The fire started on 11 February 2026 in Mindon, Myanmar (Burma), and satellites saw it burning for 9 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,619 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 69th largest in Magway since 2016 (of 189 with a page). Number 162 in Myanmar (Burma) in 2026, of 418.

The power measured by the satellite is low (13.4 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

Burnt area
3,619ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
9days
11 Feb 2026 – 19 Feb 2026
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
11 Feb
2026
Heat detections
59
in a single hotspot: 13 MW
Danger at start
26
High · FWI index
Energy released
128MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

19 Feb 2026
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 11 Feb19 Feb

How it evolved, day by day

1213141516171819

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

The weather it burned in

36°high
31km/h · peak gust
14%lowest humidity

It had gone 26 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.0 mm on 21 Feb.

This area had burned before

81% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 32 ha in 2016, 2,522 ha in 2017, 1,382 ha in 2022, 300 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 2,935 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Mindon where it started
    3,639 ha reached on 8 Feb
    1.4 %

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.

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)
11 Feb 35.0 °C 31 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
12 Feb 35.3 °C 21 % 14 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
13 Feb 34.7 °C 22 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
14 Feb 34.4 °C 28 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
15 Feb 35.4 °C 14 % 16 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
16 Feb 34.3 °C 27 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
17 Feb 33.9 °C 29 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
18 Feb 35.1 °C 32 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
19 Feb 36.3 °C 35 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
20 Feb after 36.0 °C 35 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
21 Feb after 34.7 °C 37 % 33 km/h 2.0 mm Moderate 18

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 4 Feb 2026
After · 26 Feb 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 16 February 2026 the air beside the fire reached 113 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 62: 4.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak113 µg/m³
Days over the guideline14 days
PM10115 µg/m³
Optical depth0.76
910111213141516171819202122
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 · 59Every 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 11 February 2026 and 19 February 2026: 9 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 3,619 hectares (36.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Mindon (3,639 ha, 1.4 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 36.3 °C, humidity dropped to 14 % and gusts hit 31 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 36, class High.
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.