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Wildfires in Aunglan

Aunglan, Myanmar, has had 19 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 53,968 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 20% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 13 Very low 28° · 62 % · 31 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Very low 29° · 59 % · 28 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Very low 30° · 59 % · 16 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Very low 30° · 61 % · 13 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Very low 29° · 62 % · 17 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Low 29° · 59 % · 32 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Low 29° · 65 % · 30 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Low 29° · 67 % · 30 km/h
  9. Sat 21 Low 30° · 68 % · 25 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Aunglan: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

53,968
hectares burned
20 %
of its area
19
fires
2,692
km²

How many times has Aunglan burned?

Aunglan has burned 19 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Aunglan fire, 23 March 2026, with 1,106 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 53,968 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 43,072 hectares, 16 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 3× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10.   25
  11. 9× 26
19
fires
6
years with fire
53,968
cumulative ha
43,072
distinct ha

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 Myanmar

Fires that entered Aunglan

  1. 1,106 ha Aunglan fire, 23 March 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,908 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 1,469 ha Aunglan fire, 13 March 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,077 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 5,752 ha Aunglan fire, 11 March 2026 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 10,715 ha in total · 36 days
  4. 9,083 ha Aunglan fire, 2 March 2026 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 10,163 ha in total · 33 days
  5. 1,023 ha Aunglan fire, 14 February 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,947 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 3,690 ha Aunglan fire, 13 February 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,669 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 864 ha Paukkhaung fire, 12 February 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 4,257 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 1,242 ha Aunglan fire, 12 February 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,021 ha in total · 11 days
  9. 8,956 ha Aunglan fire, 3 February 2026 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 9,093 ha in total · 20 days
  10. 1,442 ha Aunglan fire, 23 March 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,085 ha in total · 16 days
  11. 2,059 ha Aunglan fire, 8 March 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,532 ha in total · 16 days
  12. 661 ha Paukkhaung fire, March 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 2,037 ha in total · 16 days
  13. 1,874 ha Aunglan fire, March 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,390 ha in total · 11 days
  14. 2,668 ha Aunglan fire, 3 March 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,651 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 2,083 ha Aunglan fire, 3 March 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,070 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 3,658 ha Aunglan fire, 1 March 2021 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,637 ha in total · 4 days
  17. 2,083 ha Aunglan fire, February 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,070 ha in total · 14 days
  18. 288 ha Paukkhaung fire, March 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 2,176 ha in total · 12 days
  19. 3,967 ha Aunglan fire, March 2016 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,944 ha in total · 3 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/The Myanmar Analytics Project, USAID (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)). 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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