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Wildfires in Katha

Katha, Myanmar, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 9,594 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.2% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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 31° · 56 % · 18 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Low 30° · 58 % · 20 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Low 31° · 50 % · 17 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Low 31° · 49 % · 19 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Moderate 32° · 52 % · 20 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Moderate 32° · 50 % · 21 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 25° · 86 % · 33 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 21° · 96 % · 31 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

9,594
hectares burned
4.2 %
of its area
4
fires
2,264
km²

How many times has Katha burned?

Katha has burned 4 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2023. The most recent: Indaw fire, 7 April 2023, with 2,020 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 3× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
2
years with fire
9,594
cumulative ha
7 Apr 2023
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 Katha

  1. 2,020 ha Indaw fire, 7 April 2023 0.9% of the municipality · 3,322 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 2,681 ha Katha fire, April 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,688 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 2,540 ha Indaw fire, 5 April 2023 1.1% of the municipality · 5,721 ha in total · 17 days
  4. 2,353 ha Katha fire, April 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,337 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).

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