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Wildfires in Hlaingbwe

Hlaingbwe, Myanmar, has had 16 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 50,404 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 12% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Tue 3 Very low 29° · 69 % · 31 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very low 29° · 72 % · 19 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very low 30° · 68 % · 21 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 28° · 75 % · 19 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 28° · 80 % · 25 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 28° · 72 % · 31 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 29° · 56 % · 46 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 27° · 60 % · 50 km/h
  9. Wed 11 Very low 27° · 57 % · 41 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

50,404
hectares burned
12 %
of its area
16
fires
4,344
km²

How many times has Hlaingbwe burned?

Hlaingbwe has burned 16 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Hlaingbwe fire, April 2026, with 2,108 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 50,404 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 44,447 hectares, 10 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 6× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 4× 26
16
fires
7
years with fire
50,404
cumulative ha
44,447
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 Hlaingbwe

  1. 2,108 ha Hlaingbwe fire, April 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,094 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 2,109 ha Hlaingbwe fire, 19 March 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,096 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 6,868 ha Hlaingbwe fire, 18 March 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 6,862 ha in total · 27 days
  4. 3,669 ha Hlaingbwe fire, 18 March 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,651 ha in total · 17 days
  5. 2,162 ha Hlaingbwe fire, April 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,147 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 2,076 ha Hlaingbwe fire, February 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,068 ha in total · 14 days
  7. 2,826 ha Hlaingbwe fire, 15 April 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,810 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 2,098 ha Hlaingbwe fire, 1 April 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,083 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 4,678 ha Hlaingbwe fire, 27 March 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 4,655 ha in total · 28 days
  10. 3,206 ha Hlaingbwe fire, 25 March 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,187 ha in total · 20 days
  11. 2,829 ha Hlaingbwe fire, 22 March 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,815 ha in total · 18 days
  12. 2,366 ha Hlaingbwe fire, 22 March 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,353 ha in total · 17 days
  13. 3,383 ha Hlaingbwe fire, 30 March 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,399 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 4,889 ha Hlaingbwe fire, 28 March 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 4,876 ha in total · 10 days
  15. 2,681 ha Hlaingbwe fire, March 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,666 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 2,457 ha Hlaingbwe fire, March 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,441 ha in total · 9 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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