How long did the Mongping fire last?

GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 30 March 2024 and 4 April 2024: 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 2,100 hectares (21.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Mongping (2,107 ha, 0.4 %).

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.

MM · Myanmar (Burma) · 2024-03-30 → 2024-04-04

Mongping fire, 30 March 2024 Mongping

Out · last detection 4 Apr 2024, 18:29 UTC

The fire started on 30 March 2024 in Mongping, Myanmar (Burma), and satellites saw it burning for 6 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,100 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 661th largest in Shan since 2016 (of 723 with a page). Number 150 in Myanmar (Burma) in 2024, of 161.

Burnt area: 2,100ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 6days; 30 Mar 2024 – 4 Apr 2024
Municipalities hit: 1; municipalities
Started on: 30 Mar; 2024
Heat detections: 87; in a single hotspot: 87 MW
Energy released: 722MW; sum of detected power

Play back 4 Apr 2024

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 30 Mar4 Apr

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

60% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 27 ha in 2019, 8 ha in 2020, 817 ha in 2021, 998 ha in 2023. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 1,262 ha that had burned before.

817 ha Mongping fire, March 2021 4,401 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire

What happened to each town

Mongping where it started

2,107 ha reached on 28 Mar

0.4 %

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.

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 23 Mar 2024

After · 11 Apr 2024

Before After

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 2 April 2024 the air beside the fire reached 55 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 39: 2.6 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak55 µg/m³

Days over the guideline11 days

PM1082 µg/m³

Optical depth1.32

WHO 15

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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 · 87Every 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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Mongping fire last?: GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 30 March 2024 and 4 April 2024: 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 2,100 hectares (21.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Mongping (2,107 ha, 0.4 %).
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.

Satellite cross-check

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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.

Where it burned