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Wildfires in Kalewa

Kalewa, Myanmar, has had 19 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 40,407 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 17% 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 26° · 61 % · 20 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Very low 26° · 59 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Very low 28° · 64 % · 18 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Very low 28° · 58 % · 18 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Very low 28° · 58 % · 18 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Very low 23° · 74 % · 21 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Very low 22° · 90 % · 20 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Very low 23° · 82 % · 18 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 Kalewa: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

40,407
hectares burned
17 %
of its area
19
fires
2,367
km²

How many times has Kalewa burned?

Kalewa has burned 19 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kale fire, 10 April 2026, with 1,202 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 40,407 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 26,321 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 5× 26
19
fires
9
years with fire
40,407
cumulative ha
26,321
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 Kalewa

  1. 1,202 ha Kale fire, 10 April 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 2,837 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 39 ha Mingin fire, April 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,435 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 2,007 ha Kalewa fire, April 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,110 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 511 ha Kale fire, 1 April 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 2,345 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 5,827 ha Mingin fire, 30 March 2026 2.5% of the municipality · 11,993 ha in total · 26 days
  6. 2,590 ha Kalewa fire, March 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,578 ha in total · 10 days
  7. 1,386 ha Mingin fire, 24 March 2025 0.6% of the municipality · 4,978 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 1,873 ha Mingin fire, 3 April 2023 0.8% of the municipality · 2,264 ha in total · 15 days
  9. 2,024 ha Kalewa fire, March 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,015 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 3,289 ha Kalewa fire, April 2022 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,781 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 1,534 ha Kalewa fire, 18 March 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,072 ha in total · 13 days
  12. 6,548 ha Kalewa fire, 5 March 2021 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 6,568 ha in total · 29 days
  13. 116 ha Mingin fire, February 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,391 ha in total · 12 days
  14. 2,819 ha Kalewa fire, March 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,807 ha in total · 14 days
  15. 2,086 ha Kalewa fire, April 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,076 ha in total · 12 days
  16. 458 ha Mingin fire, March 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 2,063 ha in total · 17 days
  17. 4,010 ha Kalewa fire, April 2017 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 4,028 ha in total · 8 days
  18. 204 ha Mingin fire, 7 April 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 3,394 ha in total · 8 days
  19. 1,886 ha Kalewa fire, April 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,451 ha in total · 10 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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