Mingin fire, 24 March 2025 Mingin, Kalewa
The fire started on 24 March 2025 in Mingin, Myanmar (Burma), and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 4,978 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 15th largest in Saigang since 2016 (of 98 with a page). Number 21 in Myanmar (Burma) in 2025, of 123.
- Burnt area
- 4,978ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 4days
- 24 Mar 2025 – 27 Mar 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- municipalities
- Started on
- 24 Mar
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 196
- in a single hotspot: 88 MW
- Danger at start
- 36
- High · FWI index
- Energy released
- 711MW
- sum of detected power
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone more than two months without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
79% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 2,278 ha in 2017, 2,207 ha in 2019, 1,531 ha in 2020, 2,053 ha in 2021, 22 ha in 2022, 718 ha in 2023, 1,053 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 3,928 ha that had burned before.
- 2,278 ha Mingin fire, April 2017 3,394 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,996 ha Mingin fire, February 2021 2,391 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,911 ha Mingin fire, March 2019 2,063 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 57 ha Kalewa fire, March 2021 6,637 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 39 ha Kalewa fire, March 2020 2,807 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 22 ha Kalewa fire, April 2022 3,781 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 18 ha Kalewa fire, March 2023 2,015 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
What happened to each town
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Mingin where it started3,624 ha reached on 24 Mar0.9 %
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1,386 ha reached on 24 Mar0.6 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 Mar | 34.1 °C | 29 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 25 Mar | 35.4 °C | 25 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 26 Mar | 36.7 °C | 22 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 27 Mar | 36.4 °C | 25 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 28 Mar after | 37.3 °C | 20 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 38 |
| 29 Mar after | 39.4 °C | 15 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 30 Mar after | 39.5 °C | 16 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 31 Mar after | 39.3 °C | 15 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 1 Apr after | 40.0 °C | 10 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 48 |
| 2 Apr after | 39.0 °C | 21 % | 18 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 3 Apr after | 38.7 °C | 27 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 4 Apr after | 37.9 °C | 29 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 5 Apr after | 36.8 °C | 30 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 6 Apr after | 36.9 °C | 24 % | 21 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 38 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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 · CopernicusOn 27 March 2025 the air beside the fire reached 110 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 80: 5.3 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
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 · 196Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Mingin fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 24 March 2025 and 27 March 2025: 4 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 4,978 hectares (49.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Mingin (3,624 ha, 0.9 %); Kalewa (1,386 ha, 0.6 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 36.7 °C, humidity dropped to 22 % and gusts hit 26 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.