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Wildfires in Falam

Falam, Myanmar, has had 18 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 43,429 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 16% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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. Wed 4 Very low 24° · 67 % · 25 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Very low 25° · 63 % · 27 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low 25° · 59 % · 30 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 25° · 61 % · 32 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 24° · 68 % · 24 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 23° · 67 % · 29 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 20° · 76 % · 20 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Very low 19° · 82 % · 26 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 Falam: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

43,429
hectares burned
16 %
of its area
18
fires
2,678
km²

How many times has Falam burned?

Falam has burned 18 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Falam fire, 11 April 2026, with 2,090 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 43,429 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 29,254 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8. 4× 23
  9.   24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 3× 26
18
fires
7
years with fire
43,429
cumulative ha
29,254
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 Falam

  1. 2,090 ha Falam fire, 11 April 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,585 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 3,903 ha Falam fire, 11 April 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,889 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 3 ha Kale fire, February 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,578 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 15 ha Kale fire, November 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 3,998 ha in total · 38 days
  5. 4,602 ha Falam fire, 24 March 2025 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 4,585 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 2,143 ha Falam fire, 8 March 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,134 ha in total · 13 days
  7. 9 ha Hakha fire, 7 March 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 4,459 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 4,385 ha Falam fire, 6 April 2023 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 4,371 ha in total · 14 days
  9. 2,341 ha Falam fire, 5 April 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,332 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 44 ha Hakha fire, 4 April 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 5,077 ha in total · 17 days
  11. 3,457 ha Hakha fire, 4 April 2023 1.3% of the municipality · 5,350 ha in total · 19 days
  12. 2,885 ha Falam fire, 6 March 2021 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,875 ha in total · 14 days
  13. 2,102 ha Falam fire, 3 March 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,131 ha in total · 20 days
  14. 3,523 ha Falam fire, April 2020 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,548 ha in total · 11 days
  15. 3,409 ha Falam fire, March 2020 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,397 ha in total · 17 days
  16. 3,291 ha Falam fire, April 2019 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,279 ha in total · 13 days
  17. 2,401 ha Falam fire, March 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,393 ha in total · 20 days
  18. 2,827 ha Falam fire, March 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,816 ha in total · 13 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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