Mongping fire, 29 March 2025 Mongping
The fire started on 29 March 2025 in Mongping, Myanmar (Burma), and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,380 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 261th largest in Shan since 2016 (of 723 with a page). Number 51 in Myanmar (Burma) in 2025, of 123.
- Burnt area
- 3,380ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 4days
- 29 Mar 2025 – 1 Apr 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 29 Mar
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 127
- in a single hotspot: 137 MW
- Danger at start
- 28
- High · FWI index
- Energy released
- 2.1GW
- 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 31 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
100% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,022 ha in 2016, 874 ha in 2017, 162 ha in 2018, 2,713 ha in 2019, 3,020 ha in 2020, 2,130 ha in 2021, 3,008 ha in 2023, 693 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 3,392 ha that had burned before.
- 3,020 ha Mongping fire, March 2020 22,039 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 2,713 ha Mongping fire, March 2019 22,833 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 2,127 ha Mongping fire, March 2021 19,688 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 2,081 ha Mongping fire, March 2023 27,764 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 707 ha Mongping fire, March 2016 2,850 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 688 ha Mongping fire, April 2017 6,044 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 626 ha Mongping fire, April 2024 4,263 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 315 ha Mongping fire, March 2016 2,247 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
What happened to each town
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Mongping where it started3,391 ha reached on 29 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Mar | 35.7 °C | 25 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 30 Mar | 38.9 °C | 16 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 31 Mar | 38.6 °C | 22 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 38 |
| 1 Apr | 38.0 °C | 22 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 2 Apr after | 36.6 °C | 31 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 3 Apr after | 36.5 °C | 32 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 4 Apr after | 37.5 °C | 29 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 5 Apr after | 35.6 °C | 36 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 6 Apr after | 32.7 °C | 35 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 7 Apr after | 29.2 °C | 48 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 8 Apr after | 33.7 °C | 36 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 9 Apr after | 31.6 °C | 44 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 10 Apr after | 34.7 °C | 32 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 11 Apr after | 33.8 °C | 42 % | 39 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 31 |
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 4 April 2025 the air beside the fire reached 131 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 95: 6.3 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 · 127Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 27,764 haMongping22 March 2023 · 11 days · 6 km away
- 22,833 haMongping24 March 2019 · 21 days · 6 km away
- 19,688 haMongping15 March 2021 · 16 days · 8 km away
- 23,002 haMongping20 March 2026 · 17 days · 10 km away
- 22,039 haMongping19 March 2020 · 15 days · 11 km away
- 19,234 haMongping20 March 2026 · 18 days · 30 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Mongping fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 29 March 2025 and 1 April 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 3,380 hectares (33.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Mongping (3,391 ha, 0.6 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 38.9 °C, humidity dropped to 16 % and gusts hit 36 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 38, class Very 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.