Tilin fire, February 2025 Tilin, Matupi
The fire started on 26 February 2025 in Tilin, Myanmar, and satellites saw it burning for 19 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,344 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 85th largest in Magway since 2016 (of 190 with a page). Number 56 in Myanmar in 2025, of 135.
The power measured by the satellite is low (18.2 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.
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- Burnt area
- 3,344ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 19days
- 26 Feb 2025 – 16 Mar 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- municipalities
- Started on
- 26 Feb
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 134
- in a single hotspot: 18 MW
- Danger at start
- 26
- High · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 36MW
- detected power per day, on average
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 7 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
98% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,068 ha in 2017, 206 ha in 2019, 1,131 ha in 2020, 1,284 ha in 2021, 6 ha in 2022, 2,257 ha in 2023, 1,828 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 3,291 ha that had burned before.
- 1,772 ha Tilin fire, March 2023 2,011 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,284 ha Tilin fire, February 2021 5,224 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 206 ha Tilin fire, February 2019 11,583 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 156 ha Tilin fire, February 2024 13,183 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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Tilin where it started2,593 ha reached on 1 Mar1.9 %
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769 ha reached on 6 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.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Mar | 33.6 °C | 31 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 2 Mar | 34.4 °C | 30 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 3 Mar | 33.3 °C | 32 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 4 Mar | 34.4 °C | 28 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 5 Mar | 34.1 °C | 23 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 6 Mar | 33.1 °C | 31 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 7 Mar | 34.4 °C | 25 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 8 Mar | 34.3 °C | 23 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 9 Mar | 32.3 °C | 33 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 10 Mar | 32.9 °C | 34 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 11 Mar | 34.1 °C | 30 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 12 Mar | 34.9 °C | 28 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 13 Mar | 35.3 °C | 28 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 14 Mar | 36.4 °C | 24 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 15 Mar | 37.1 °C | 25 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 16 Mar | 38.6 °C | 21 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 17 Mar after | 37.1 °C | 24 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 18 Mar after | 36.7 °C | 27 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 19 Mar after | 37.8 °C | 23 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
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 12 March 2025 the air beside the fire reached 70 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 47: 3.1 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 · 134Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Tilin fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 26 February 2025 to 16 March 2025 (19 days). The perimeter dates it from 1 March 2025 to 9 March 2025.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 3,344 hectares (33.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Tilin (2,593 ha, 1.9 %); Matupi (769 ha, 0.1 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 34.4 °C, humidity dropped to 23 % and gusts hit 31 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 34, class 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.
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: 9 March 2025 → 16 March 2025.
- Start date: 1 March 2025 → 26 February 2025.
Does something look wrong on this page?
This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 1 March 2025 to 9 March 2025. 134 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.
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.