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Monghsat fire, 19 March 2016 Monghsat

Out · last detection 24 Mar 2016, 07:34 UTC

The fire started on 19 March 2016 in Monghsat, Myanmar (Burma), and satellites saw it burning for 6 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,808 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 372th largest in Shan since 2016 (of 723 with a page). Number 58 in Myanmar (Burma) in 2016, of 119.

Burnt area
2,808ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
6days
19 Mar 2016 – 24 Mar 2016
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
19 Mar
2016
Heat detections
69
in a single hotspot: 87 MW
Danger at start
30
High · FWI index
Energy released
984MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

24 Mar 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 19 Mar24 Mar

How it evolved, day by day

19202224

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

The weather it burned in

35°high
48km/h · peak gust
28%lowest humidity

It had gone 19 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Monghsat where it started
    2,824 ha reached on 16 Mar
    0.6 %

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)
19 Mar 34.1 °C 28 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
20 Mar 34.5 °C 30 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
21 Mar 35.0 °C 32 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
22 Mar 34.6 °C 33 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
23 Mar 33.7 °C 33 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
24 Mar 34.3 °C 32 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
25 Mar after 32.1 °C 43 % 45 km/h 0.2 mm High 26
26 Mar after 33.9 °C 37 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
27 Mar after 31.9 °C 46 % 36 km/h 0.3 mm High 23
28 Mar after 32.9 °C 37 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
29 Mar after 34.7 °C 27 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
30 Mar after 32.8 °C 30 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
31 Mar after 35.5 °C 27 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
1 Apr after 34.6 °C 25 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
2 Apr after 33.5 °C 31 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
3 Apr after 34.0 °C 34 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm High 33

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 12 Mar 2016
After · 31 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 · 69Every 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 Monghsat fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 19 March 2016 and 24 March 2016: 6 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 2,808 hectares (28.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Monghsat (2,824 ha, 0.6 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 35.0 °C, humidity dropped to 28 % and gusts hit 48 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 32, 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.