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Ye-U fire, March 2019 Ye-U, Taze, Mingin

Out · last detection 28 Mar 2019, 07:27 UTC

The fire started on 22 March 2019 in Ye-U, Myanmar (Burma), and satellites saw it burning for 6 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,440 hectares from heat detections, spread across 3 municipalities.

It is the 33th largest in Saigang since 2016 (of 98 with a page). Number 39 in Myanmar (Burma) in 2019, of 141.

Burnt area
3,440ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
6days
22 Mar 2019 – 27 Mar 2019
Municipalities hit
3
municipalities
Started on
22 Mar
2019
Heat detections
167
in a single hotspot: 44 MW
Danger at start
35
High · FWI index
Energy released
838MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

28 Mar 2019
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 22 Mar27 Mar

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.

The weather it burned in

38°high
35km/h · peak gust
16%lowest humidity

It had gone 15 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.0 mm on 2 Apr.

This area had burned before

44% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,500 ha in 2017.

What happened to each town

  1. Ye-U where it started
    3,276 ha reached on 15 Mar
    2.3 %
  2. Taze
    98 ha reached on 23 Mar
    0.0 %
  3. Mingin
    85 ha reached on 24 Mar
    0.0 %

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)
22 Mar 35.4 °C 25 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
23 Mar 37.0 °C 24 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
24 Mar 37.4 °C 16 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
25 Mar 37.2 °C 25 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
26 Mar 38.2 °C 23 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
27 Mar 37.4 °C 26 % 30 km/h 0.6 mm High 38
28 Mar after 35.4 °C 22 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
29 Mar after 36.4 °C 25 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
30 Mar after 38.3 °C 18 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
31 Mar after 37.4 °C 27 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
1 Apr after 34.4 °C 28 % 24 km/h 0.3 mm Very high 39
2 Apr after 35.0 °C 31 % 28 km/h 1.0 mm High 30

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 15 Mar 2019
After · 3 Apr 2019

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

Detections table · 167Every 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 timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Ye-U fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 22 March 2019 and 27 March 2019: 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 3,440 hectares (34.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 3 municipalities: Ye-U (3,276 ha, 2.3 %); Taze (98 ha, 0.0 %); Mingin (85 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 38.2 °C, humidity dropped to 16 % and gusts hit 35 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 43, 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.