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Wildfires in Kawkareik

Kawkareik, Myanmar, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 30,387 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 13% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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 27 Very low 34° · 49 % · 28 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Low 34° · 47 % · 30 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 33° · 58 % · 22 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 67 % · 20 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 34° · 59 % · 24 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 64 % · 20 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 32° · 62 % · 26 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 32° · 63 % · 22 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

30,387
hectares burned
13 %
of its area
8
fires
2,427
km²

How many times has Kawkareik burned?

Kawkareik has burned 8 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2018, 2020, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Myawaddy fire, April 2026, with 1 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 30,387 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 24,448 hectares, 10 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 3× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 3× 26
8
fires
4
years with fire
30,387
cumulative ha
24,448
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 Kawkareik

  1. 1 ha Myawaddy fire, April 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,474 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 2,838 ha Kawkareik fire, March 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,820 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 11,520 ha Kyainseikgyi fire, 13 March 2026 4.8% of the municipality · 16,502 ha in total · 22 days
  4. 2,305 ha Kawkareik fire, March 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,594 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 2,616 ha Kawkareik fire, 17 March 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,793 ha in total · 22 days
  6. 3,160 ha Kawkareik fire, 14 March 2020 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,148 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 6,000 ha Kyainseikgyi fire, 3 March 2020 2.5% of the municipality · 75,419 ha in total · 49 days
  8. 1,948 ha Kawkareik fire, March 2018 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,101 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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