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Wildfires in Hpapun

Hpapun, Myanmar, has had 57 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 192,935 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 29% 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. Thu 29 Low 31° · 51 % · 33 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 51 % · 28 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 52 % · 21 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 67 % · 19 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 65 % · 21 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 31° · 57 % · 25 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 61 % · 25 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 31° · 60 % · 19 km/h
  9. Fri 6 Very low 30° · 62 % · 21 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

192,935
hectares burned
29 %
of its area
57
fires
6,768
km²

How many times has Hpapun burned?

Hpapun has burned 57 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Hpapun fire, April 2026, with 3,002 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 5× 16
  2. 6× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 7× 19
  5. 8× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 6× 23
  9. 5× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 11× 26
57
fires
11
years with fire
192,935
cumulative ha
1 Apr 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 Myanmar →

Fires that entered Hpapun

  1. 3,002 ha Hpapun fire, April 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,997 ha in total · 18 days
  2. 8,035 ha Hpapun fire, 31 March 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 7,989 ha in total · 21 days
  3. 4,216 ha Hpapun fire, 31 March 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,196 ha in total · 14 days
  4. 2,525 ha Hpapun fire, 31 March 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,513 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 4,156 ha Hpapun fire, 27 March 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,136 ha in total · 15 days
  6. 2,436 ha Hpapun fire, 25 March 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,416 ha in total · 17 days
  7. 2,825 ha Hpapun fire, 22 March 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,838 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 6,081 ha Hpapun fire, 22 March 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 6,379 ha in total · 17 days
  9. 5,600 ha Hpapun fire, 21 March 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,577 ha in total · 14 days
  10. 4,189 ha Hpapun fire, 21 March 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,171 ha in total · 19 days
  11. 308 ha Hpa-An fire, 19 March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,676 ha in total · 18 days
  12. 2,895 ha Hpapun fire, 24 March 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,880 ha in total · 18 days
  13. 2,634 ha Hpapun fire, 21 March 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,720 ha in total · 7 days
  14. 14,362 ha Hpapun fire, 6 March 2025 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 14,249 ha in total · 30 days
  15. 2,012 ha Hpapun fire, 15 April 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,001 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 2,116 ha Hpapun fire, 7 April 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,109 ha in total · 15 days
  17. 3,108 ha Hpapun fire, March 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,083 ha in total · 6 days
  18. 48 ha Hpasawng fire, 24 February 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 3,717 ha in total · 18 days
  19. 6,389 ha Mese fire, 17 February 2024 0.9% of the municipality · 45,818 ha in total · 36 days
  20. 3,895 ha Hpapun fire, 3 April 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,876 ha in total · 10 days
  21. 3,981 ha Hpapun fire, 3 April 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,958 ha in total · 8 days
  22. 2,024 ha Hpapun fire, 21 March 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,022 ha in total · 14 days
  23. 3,078 ha Hpapun fire, 21 March 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,069 ha in total · 13 days
  24. 3,454 ha Hpapun fire, 20 March 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,534 ha in total · 13 days
  25. 5,541 ha Hpapun fire, February 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,500 ha in total · 9 days
  26. 4,050 ha Hpapun fire, February 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,032 ha in total · 17 days
  27. 5,227 ha Hpapun fire, March 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,214 ha in total · 8 days
  28. 4,214 ha Hpapun fire, February 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,182 ha in total · 9 days
  29. 4,097 ha Hpapun fire, January 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,065 ha in total · 7 days
  30. 2,857 ha Hpapun fire, 6 April 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,841 ha in total · 7 days
  31. 2,400 ha Shwegyin fire, April 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 3,290 ha in total · 13 days
  32. 2,666 ha Hpapun fire, 1 April 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,652 ha in total · 9 days
  33. 4,006 ha Hpapun fire, 27 March 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,992 ha in total · 8 days
  34. 2,251 ha Hpapun fire, 25 March 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,240 ha in total · 4 days
  35. 4,405 ha Hpapun fire, 20 March 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,370 ha in total · 9 days
  36. 1,319 ha Hpa-An fire, 19 March 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 3,092 ha in total · 21 days
  37. 2,335 ha Hpapun fire, February 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,318 ha in total · 5 days
  38. 2,063 ha Hpapun fire, 25 April 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,052 ha in total · 8 days
  39. 3,095 ha Hpapun fire, 9 April 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,077 ha in total · 9 days
  40. 4,154 ha Hpapun fire, 8 April 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,129 ha in total · 7 days
  41. 2,712 ha Hpapun fire, 7 April 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,702 ha in total · 14 days
  42. 1,253 ha Hpapun fire, 30 March 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,159 ha in total · 13 days
  43. 2,375 ha Hpapun fire, 29 March 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,360 ha in total · 7 days
  44. 2,799 ha Hpapun fire, February 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,776 ha in total · 6 days
  45. 2,609 ha Hpapun fire, April 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,595 ha in total · 3 days
  46. 3,266 ha Hpapun fire, March 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,242 ha in total · 9 days
  47. 2,713 ha Hpapun fire, April 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,698 ha in total · 4 days
  48. 3,887 ha Hpapun fire, 25 March 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,856 ha in total · 15 days
  49. 3,160 ha Hpapun fire, 12 March 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,145 ha in total · 8 days
  50. 7,239 ha Hpapun fire, 6 March 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 7,237 ha in total · 23 days
  51. 2,574 ha Hpapun fire, February 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,554 ha in total · 9 days
  52. 0 ha Hpasawng fire, February 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 2,747 ha in total · 16 days
  53. 2,303 ha Hpapun fire, 6 April 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,293 ha in total · 15 days
  54. 1,976 ha Hpapun fire, 4 April 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,518 ha in total · 8 days
  55. 2,518 ha Hpapun fire, 1 April 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,518 ha in total · 9 days
  56. 3,318 ha Hpapun fire, March 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,291 ha in total · 7 days
  57. 185 ha Hpasawng fire, March 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 8,018 ha in total · 15 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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