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Wildfires in Kawlin

Kawlin, Myanmar, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 2,468 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.3% 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. Sat 14 Low 26° · 57 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Low 27° · 55 % · 19 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Low 27° · 58 % · 17 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Low 28° · 57 % · 22 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Low 26° · 67 % · 20 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Low 24° · 75 % · 17 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 24° · 76 % · 17 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low 27° · 70 % · 16 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 Kawlin: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

2,468
hectares burned
1.3 %
of its area
2
fires
1,896
km²

How many times has Kawlin burned?

Kawlin has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2020 and 2026. The most recent: Kanbalu fire, 26 February 2026, with 106 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
2
fires
2
years with fire
2,468
cumulative ha
26 Feb 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 Kawlin

  1. 106 ha Kanbalu fire, 26 February 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 5,633 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 2,362 ha Kawlin fire, March 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,367 ha in total · 12 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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