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Wildfires in Erdenecagaan

Erdenecagaan, Mongolia, has had 21 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 134,164 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.9% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 13).

Only fires of 2,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 24 Moderate 4° · 28 % · 39 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 5° · 26 % · 46 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Moderate 2° · 27 % · 57 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Moderate 0° · 24 % · 66 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Moderate 4° · 23 % · 48 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Low 4° · 29 % · 46 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Low -4° · 29 % · 62 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Low 1° · 17 % · 39 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

134,164
hectares burned
7.9 %
of its area
21
fires
16,940
km²

How many times has Erdenecagaan burned?

Erdenecagaan has burned 21 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Erdenecagaan fire, 13 May 2026, with 7,581 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 6× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 7× 26
21
fires
6
years with fire
134,164
cumulative ha
13 May 2026
most recent

Fires larger than 2,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Mongolia →

Fires that entered Erdenecagaan

  1. 2,772 ha Erdenecagaan fire, October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 7,581 ha Erdenecagaan fire, 13 May 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,553 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 21,192 ha Erdenecagaan fire, 13 May 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 21,150 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 2,124 ha Erdenecagaan fire, 13 May 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,112 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 21,990 ha Erdenecagaan fire, 13 May 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 21,909 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 12,555 ha Erdenecagaan fire, 13 May 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 12,530 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 14,586 ha Erdenecagaan fire, April 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 16,023 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 2,985 ha Erdenecagaan fire, March 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,994 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 9,760 ha Erdenecagaan fire, 9 March 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 9,696 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 1,328 ha Erdenecagaan fire, 9 March 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,982 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 2,026 ha Erdenecagaan fire, 9 March 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,017 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 2,189 ha Erdenecagaan fire, April 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,178 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 958 ha Matad fire, April 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 4,244 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 4,213 ha Erdenecagaan fire, 19 April 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,246 ha in total · 1 day
  15. 3,064 ha Erdenecagaan fire, 18 April 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,339 ha in total · 1 day
  16. 3,464 ha Erdenecagaan fire, April 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,724 ha in total · 1 day
  17. 2,820 ha Erdenecagaan fire, July 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,815 ha in total · 2 days
  18. 4,921 ha Erdenecagaan fire, May 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,880 ha in total · 1 day
  19. 4,778 ha Erdenecagaan fire, 30 April 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,812 ha in total · 1 day
  20. 5,073 ha Erdenecagaan fire, 29 April 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,405 ha in total · 1 day
  21. 2,677 ha Erdenecagaan fire, 29 April 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,685 ha in total · 1 day
  22. 3,881 ha Erdenecagaan fire, 7 April 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,881 ha in total · 2 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/National Statistical Office of Mongolia, OCHA ROAP (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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