How long did the Gyobingauk fire last?

GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 14 March 2026 and 29 March 2026: 16 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 2,775 hectares (27.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire entered 3 municipalities: Gyobingauk (1,877 ha, 2.4 %); Nattalin (846 ha, 0.6 %); Zigon (68 ha, 0.3 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 39.5 °C, humidity dropped to 26 % and gusts hit 35 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 (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

MM · Myanmar · 2026-03-14 → 2026-03-29

Gyobingauk fire, March 2026 Gyobingauk, Nattalin, Zigon

Out · last detection 30 Mar 2026, 07:52 UTC

The fire started on 14 March 2026 in Gyobingauk, Myanmar, and satellites saw it burning for 16 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,775 hectares from heat detections, spread across 3 municipalities.

It is the 39th largest in Bago since 2016 (of 81 with a page). Number 290 in Myanmar in 2026, of 480.

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Burnt area: 2,775ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 16days; 14 Mar 2026 – 29 Mar 2026
Municipalities hit: 3; municipalities
Started on: 14 Mar; 2026
Heat detections: 106; in a single hotspot: 75 MW
Danger at start: 27; High · FWI index
Average daily power: 135MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 14 Mar29 Mar

Play back 30 Mar 2026

How it evolved, day by day

14 Mar 17 Mar 20 Mar 22 Mar 24 Mar 26 Mar 28 Mar 30 Mar

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

The weather it burned in

40°high

35km/h · peak gust

26%lowest humidity

It had gone 2 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

21% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 585 ha in 2021.

How big is it?

It burned the equivalent of 1.8% of the area of London (28 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

Gyobingauk where it started

1,877 ha

2.4 %
Nattalin

846 ha

0.6 %
Zigon

68 ha

0.3 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

People and buildings inside the perimeter

GHSL 2025

Built-up area< 0.1 ha

Residents< 20

Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2025, satellite-based estimate).

This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.

Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu

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)
14 Mar	35.1 °C	40 %	33 km/h	0.2 mm	High 27
15 Mar	35.6 °C	40 %	27 km/h	0.1 mm	High 26
16 Mar	37.0 °C	32 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	High 29
17 Mar	37.2 °C	28 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	High 31
18 Mar	38.4 °C	28 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
19 Mar	38.7 °C	31 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
20 Mar	37.7 °C	32 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
21 Mar	37.7 °C	35 %	32 km/h	0.3 mm	High 35
22 Mar	36.6 °C	38 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
23 Mar	37.1 °C	28 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
24 Mar	37.4 °C	26 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	High 35
25 Mar	38.8 °C	26 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	High 35
26 Mar	39.5 °C	32 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	High 35
27 Mar	39.2 °C	30 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	High 38
28 Mar	39.3 °C	28 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 38
29 Mar	39.1 °C	28 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 38
30 Mar after	40.1 °C	25 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 39
31 Mar after	40.0 °C	33 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 39
1 Apr after	40.6 °C	28 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
2 Apr after	40.7 °C	27 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
3 Apr after	40.1 °C	32 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 40
4 Apr after	39.2 °C	36 %	32 km/h	0.1 mm	High 36
5 Apr after	38.6 °C	41 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34
6 Apr after	38.5 °C	41 %	33 km/h	0.1 mm	High 37
7 Apr after	37.3 °C	38 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	High 35
8 Apr after	37.5 °C	34 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 7 Mar 2026

After · 5 Apr 2026

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 29 March 2026 the air beside the fire reached 112 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 55: 3.6 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak112 µg/m³

Days over the guideline20 days

PM10117 µg/m³

Optical depth0.91

WHO 15

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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 · 106Every 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 Gyobingauk fire last?: GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 14 March 2026 and 29 March 2026: 16 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 2,775 hectares (27.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire entered 3 municipalities: Gyobingauk (1,877 ha, 2.4 %); Nattalin (846 ha, 0.6 %); Zigon (68 ha, 0.3 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 39.5 °C, humidity dropped to 26 % and gusts hit 35 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 (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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How we know this

Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 106 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
We have not matched this page with any official record.
Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.

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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