Burned area
satellite only7,239ha
Union of 2 GWIS (Copernicus) perimeters: overlapping areas count once.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- 10 Mar 2025 – 5 Apr 2025
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MM · Myanmar · –
Taunggyi fire, March 2025 Taunggyi, Hsihseng, Nyaungshwe
Out · last detection 5 Apr 2025, 06:37 UTC
The fire started on 10 March 2025 in Taunggyi, Myanmar, and satellites saw it burning for 27 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 7,239 hectares from heat detections, spread across 3 municipalities.
It is the 42th largest in Shan since 2016 (of 625 with a page). Number 11 in Myanmar in 2025, of 133.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only27days
10 Mar 2025 to 5 Apr 2025: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 5 Apr 2025, 06:37 UTC
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Start
satellite only10 Mar 2025
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 10 Mar 2025
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Hotspots
satellite only281
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 40 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP)
- Date
- 10 Mar 2025 – 5 Apr 2025
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There is no official record to compare with. Each hotspot is a pixel detected in one satellite pass, not a separate fire.
The worst day
satellite only712MW
Total radiative power on 27 March 2025; hotspots that day: 89.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 27 Mar 2025
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Fire radiative power (FRP) measures the energy the fire gives off when the satellite passes. Added up by day, it compares intensity, not area.
Danger at the start
model34.2FWI · high
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 13.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 10 Mar 2025, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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This is an index computed from weather model data, not a measurement of the fire nor an official warning. Danger warnings are issued by each country’s authority. Emergency number and official warnings
Weather during the fire
model37.3°C · 15% RH
High of 37.3 °C and minimum humidity of 15% on 30 March 2025; gusts of 49 km/h on 12 March 2025.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 10 Mar 2025 – 5 Apr 2025
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
Living inside
model≈ 350people
Estimated residents inside the perimeter and 0.66 ha of built-up area (100 m grid, epoch 2025).
- Source
- GHSL R2023A · JRC
- Date
- calculated on 24 October 2026
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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.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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· reconstructed weatherWeather and FWI computed from the ERA5 reanalysis
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logLast day with fire: 29 March 2025 → 5 April 2025.
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logStart date: 17 March 2025 → 10 March 2025.
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· reconstructed GHSLPopulation and built-up area computed
What was saved on 26 October 2026
Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
- Area
- 7,326 ha
- Dates
- 10 Mar 2025 – 5 Apr 2025
- Name
- Taunggyi
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/taunggyi-2025-03?v=2026-10-26A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
Citation
A lede of about 60 words figures only, no adjectives
CSV for this fire taunggyi-2025-03.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-10 | 1 | 1 | 34.7 | 17.4 | 24 | 10.2 | 27.7 | 0 | 34.2 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-03-11 | 4 | 27 | 34.5 | 16.9 | 26 | 15.7 | 42.1 | 0 | 39.4 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-03-12 | 12 | 54 | 34.7 | 19.3 | 20 | 18.2 | 49 | 0 | 44.9 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-03-13 | 2 | 2 | 34.8 | 20 | 19 | 12.8 | 36 | 0 | 40.6 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-03-14 | 1 | 3 | 35.7 | 17.1 | 21 | 13.1 | 36.4 | 0 | 41.3 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-03-15 | 2 | 16 | 35.8 | 17.4 | 23 | 12.8 | 36 | 0 | 41.3 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-03-16 | 0 | 0 | 36.2 | 18 | 24 | 12.9 | 35.3 | 0 | 41.7 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-03-17 | 16 | 112 | 36.6 | 19.4 | 23 | 15.1 | 41 | 0 | 44.3 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-03-18 | 7 | 34 | 36.3 | 21.7 | 26 | 16.6 | 44.6 | 0 | 46.2 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-03-19 | 10 | 155 | 34.9 | 21.4 | 29 | 14.5 | 37.8 | 0 | 41.9 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-03-20 | 13 | 40 | 33.7 | 19.9 | 25 | 10.9 | 31.3 | 0 | 38.7 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-03-21 | 13 | 27 | 31.8 | 21.3 | 41 | 10.6 | 32.4 | 0.7 | 24.9 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-03-22 | 12 | 76 | 32.2 | 19.9 | 43 | 9.8 | 31 | 0.6 | 23.2 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-03-23 | 12 | 54 | 33.3 | 21.8 | 38 | 11.3 | 34.2 | 0.1 | 27.4 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-03-24 | 26 | 199 | 34.4 | 19 | 28 | 13 | 34.6 | 0 | 34.7 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-03-25 | 32 | 470 | 33.9 | 17.5 | 27 | 13.1 | 36.7 | 0.1 | 35.8 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-03-26 | 14 | 177 | 33.8 | 18.6 | 28 | 11.8 | 33.1 | 0 | 34.9 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-03-27 | 89 | 712 | 35 | 17.4 | 26 | 8.7 | 27 | 0 | 33.5 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-03-28 | 6 | 67 | 34.1 | 19.3 | 23 | 8.7 | 29.2 | 0 | 34.9 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-03-29 | 3 | 16 | 34.6 | 21.1 | 20 | 10.1 | 33.1 | 0 | 38.4 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-03-30 | 1 | 13 | 37.3 | 19.7 | 15 | 12.7 | 35.6 | 0 | 46.7 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-03-31 | 0 | 0 | 36.4 | 20.7 | 22 | 17 | 46.1 | 0 | 51.6 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-04-01 | 1 | 12 | 37.2 | 22 | 15 | 16.1 | 43.9 | 0 | 50.9 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-04-02 | 0 | 0 | 36.9 | 21 | 24 | 12.1 | 31.7 | 0 | 45.2 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-04-03 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 23.1 | 26 | 12.4 | 33.8 | 0 | 44.1 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-04-04 | 3 | 44 | 36.3 | 21.4 | 26 | 14.5 | 40.3 | 0 | 45.7 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-04-05 | 1 | 7 | 35.3 | 22.3 | 30 | 15.8 | 44.3 | 0 | 43.8 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-04-06 | 0 | 0 | 30.9 | 22 | 38 | 10.9 | 31.3 | 0 | 32.6 | alto | 0 |
| 2025-04-07 | 0 | 0 | 28.8 | 22.2 | 49 | 5.6 | 19.8 | 0.5 | 23.2 | alto | 0 |
| 2025-04-08 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 20.6 | 31 | 14.1 | 38.2 | 0.3 | 33.6 | alto | 0 |
| 2025-04-09 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 22.3 | 41 | 8.4 | 26.3 | 0.1 | 28.4 | alto | 0 |
| 2025-04-10 | 0 | 0 | 34.8 | 21.2 | 30 | 13.2 | 36 | 0.8 | 32.4 | alto | 0 |
| 2025-04-11 | 0 | 0 | 32.3 | 21.5 | 43 | 17.2 | 43.9 | 0.2 | 34.8 | alto | 0 |
| 2025-04-12 | 0 | 0 | 30.7 | 21.1 | 49 | 9.7 | 28.8 | 4.1 | 6 | bajo | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 7,239ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 27days
- 10 Mar 2025 – 5 Apr 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 3
- municipalities
- Started on
- 10 Mar
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 281
- in a single hotspot: 40 MW
- Danger at start
- 34
- High · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 101MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
10 Mar5 Apr
5 Apr 2025
How it evolved, day by day
10 Mar
15 Mar
21 Mar
27 Mar
1 Apr
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
37°high
49km/h · peak gust
15%lowest humidity
It had gone 13 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 4.1 mm on 12 Apr.
This area had burned before
100% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,999 ha in 2016, 3,119 ha in 2017, 4,109 ha in 2018, 2,895 ha in 2019, 3,065 ha in 2020, 4,753 ha in 2021, 2,226 ha in 2022, 1,677 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 7,221 ha that had burned before.
- 4,468 ha Hsihseng fire, March 2021 6,724 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 2,707 ha Taunggyi fire, March 2019 4,684 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 2,226 ha Taunggyi fire, March 2022 3,243 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 2,093 ha Taunggyi fire, April 2018 2,727 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 2,089 ha Taunggyi fire, March 2017 5,291 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,549 ha Taunggyi fire, March 2020 3,756 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,515 ha Taunggyi fire, March 2020 2,271 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,465 ha Nyaungshwe fire, March 2018 4,429 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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Taunggyi where it started5,520 ha reached on 17 Mar2.7 %
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1,697 ha reached on 10 Mar0.8 %
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131 ha reached on 11 Mar0.1 %
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 2025Built-up area0.66 ha
Residents≈ 350
Inside the perimeter there were about 0.66 hectares of built-up land and about 350 residents (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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Mar | 34.7 °C | 24 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 11 Mar | 34.5 °C | 26 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 12 Mar | 34.7 °C | 20 % | 49 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 13 Mar | 34.8 °C | 19 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 14 Mar | 35.7 °C | 21 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 15 Mar | 35.8 °C | 23 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 16 Mar | 36.2 °C | 24 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 17 Mar | 36.6 °C | 23 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 18 Mar | 36.3 °C | 26 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 19 Mar | 34.9 °C | 29 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 20 Mar | 33.7 °C | 25 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 21 Mar | 31.8 °C | 41 % | 32 km/h | 0.7 mm | High 25 |
| 22 Mar | 32.2 °C | 43 % | 31 km/h | 0.6 mm | High 23 |
| 23 Mar | 33.3 °C | 38 % | 34 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 27 |
| 24 Mar | 34.4 °C | 28 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 25 Mar | 33.9 °C | 27 % | 37 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 36 |
| 26 Mar | 33.8 °C | 28 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 27 Mar | 35.0 °C | 26 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 28 Mar | 34.1 °C | 23 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 29 Mar | 34.6 °C | 20 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 38 |
| 30 Mar | 37.3 °C | 15 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 31 Mar | 36.4 °C | 22 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 52 |
| 1 Apr | 37.2 °C | 15 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 2 Apr | 36.9 °C | 24 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 3 Apr | 37.0 °C | 26 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 4 Apr | 36.3 °C | 26 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 5 Apr | 35.3 °C | 30 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 6 Apr after | 30.9 °C | 38 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 7 Apr after | 28.8 °C | 49 % | 20 km/h | 0.5 mm | High 23 |
| 8 Apr after | 33.0 °C | 31 % | 38 km/h | 0.3 mm | High 34 |
| 9 Apr after | 31.0 °C | 41 % | 26 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 28 |
| 10 Apr after | 34.8 °C | 30 % | 36 km/h | 0.8 mm | High 32 |
| 11 Apr after | 32.3 °C | 43 % | 44 km/h | 0.2 mm | High 35 |
| 12 Apr after | 30.7 °C | 49 % | 29 km/h | 4.1 mm | Low 6 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 34.2, a minimum humidity of 24% and 13 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 38.
FWI at the start
34.2
Minimum humidity
24 %
Days without rain
13
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Taunggyi fire, March 2025
7,239 ha
27 days
FWI 34.2
Min. humidity 24 %
Langkho fire, March 2017
3,262 ha
8 days
FWI 34.1
Min. humidity 22 %
75 km away, in 2017
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Pai fire, March 2021
1,026 ha
4 days
FWI 33.7
Min. humidity 25 %
153 km away, in 2021
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Kyaukse fire, March 2017
3,903 ha
11 days
FWI 33.4
Min. humidity 24 %
184 km away, in 2017
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Hsihseng fire, February 2022
5,108 ha
17 days
FWI 33.4
Min. humidity 21 %
30 km away, in 2022
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Shadaw fire, April 2023
4,432 ha
9 days
FWI 31.8
Min. humidity 24 %
100 km away, in 2023
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 2.4 mm on 21 Apr.
What happened to them
- 9 days
- median duration
- 2,368 ha
- median area
- 100 %
- went past 1,000 ha
- 2.6 mm
- rain at the end (median; 15 of 38 had it)
It was 3.1 times larger than the median of its twins and lasted 27 days, against 9 days.
None of its 38 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 23 of 38, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 2.6 mm.
This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it
How it ended
4.1 mmfirst rain
12 Apr7 days after it ended
49km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 5 Apr, and on 12 Apr 4.1 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out. Twins with rain when they ended: 15 of 38, with a median of 2.6 mm.
Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
How a twin is chosen
- Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
- Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
- Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
- Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
- They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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Before · 3 Mar 2025
After · 12 Apr 2025
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 20 March 2025 the air beside the fire reached 145 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 93: 6.2 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak145 µg/m³
Days over the guideline18 days
PM10151 µg/m³
Optical depth1.46
WHO 15
15 Mar19 Mar23 Mar27 Mar31 Mar
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 · 281Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
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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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Other fires nearby
- 18,197 haTaunggyi8 March 2026 · 30 days · 6 km away
- 6,724 haHsihsengMarch 2021 · 17 days · 10 km away
- 7,858 haPinlaungJanuary 2022 · 17 days · 18 km away
- 7,895 haNyaungshwe1 February 2020 · 9 days · 19 km away
- 7,232 haNyaungshwe16 January 2023 · 14 days · 19 km away
- 7,560 haHsihseng3 February 2026 · 20 days · 26 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Taunggyi fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 10 March 2025 to 5 April 2025 (27 days). The perimeter dates it from 17 March 2025 to 29 March 2025.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 7,239 hectares (72.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 3 municipalities: Taunggyi (5,520 ha, 2.7 %); Hsihseng (1,697 ha, 0.8 %); Nyaungshwe (131 ha, 0.1 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 37.3 °C, humidity dropped to 15 % and gusts hit 49 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 52, class Extreme.
- 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.
- How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
- Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2016 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 38. Their median duration was 9 days and their median area 2,368 ha; 100 % went past 1,000 ha. None of its 38 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 23 of 38, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 2.6 mm.
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
History of this page · 2 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
- Last day with fire: 29 March 2025 → 5 April 2025.
- Start date: 17 March 2025 → 10 March 2025.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery; 2 polygons grouped in this page.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 17 March 2025 to 29 March 2025. 281 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.
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.