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Wildfires in Hpakant

Hpakant, Myanmar (Burma), has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 25,235 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.4% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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 23 Low 31° · 46 % · 18 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 31° · 41 % · 14 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 32° · 37 % · 16 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 34° · 31 % · 17 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 34° · 33 % · 18 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 33° · 38 % · 26 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 32° · 56 % · 20 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 64 % · 20 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

25,235
hectares burned
4.4 %
of its area
8
fires
5,781
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Hpakant

  1. 4,302 ha Hpakant fire, April 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,275 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 1,307 ha Tanai fire, March 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 3,148 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 2,234 ha Hpakant fire, 7 April 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,223 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 862 ha Mohnyin fire, 7 April 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 3,803 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 5,774 ha Hpakant fire, 6 April 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 5,759 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 3,297 ha Hpakant fire, 11 April 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,288 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 4,313 ha Hpakant fire, 8 April 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,294 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 3,147 ha Hpakant fire, April 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,138 ha in total · 6 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).