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Mindon fire, 8 March 2026 Mindon

Out · last detection 14 Mar 2026, 06:12 UTC

The fire started on 8 March 2026 in Mindon, Myanmar (Burma), and satellites saw it burning for 7 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,020 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 186th largest in Magway since 2016 (of 189 with a page). Number 415 in Myanmar (Burma) in 2026, of 418.

Burnt area
2,020ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
7days
8 Mar 2026 – 14 Mar 2026
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
8 Mar
2026
Heat detections
30
in a single hotspot: 37 MW
Energy released
168MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

14 Mar 2026
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 8 Mar14 Mar

How it evolved, day by day

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

This area had burned before

82% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 132 ha in 2016, 407 ha in 2017, 648 ha in 2019, 532 ha in 2021, 399 ha in 2022, 366 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 1,650 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Mindon where it started
    2,032 ha reached on 1 Mar
    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 · 1 Mar 2026
After · 21 Mar 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 11 March 2026 the air beside the fire reached 125 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 79: 5.3 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak125 µg/m³
Days over the guideline12 days
PM10130 µg/m³
Optical depth1.11
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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 · 30Every 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

Other fires nearby

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Mindon fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 8 March 2026 and 14 March 2026: 7 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 2,020 hectares (20.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Mindon (2,032 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 (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.