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Wildfires in Lashio

Lashio, Myanmar, has had 29 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 110,060 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 29% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 44 % · 19 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 53 % · 21 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 54 % · 31 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 52 % · 23 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 51 % · 19 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 51 % · 26 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 28° · 51 % · 29 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 29° · 51 % · 25 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

110,060
hectares burned
29 %
of its area
29
fires
3,860
km²

How many times has Lashio burned?

Lashio has burned 29 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Hsipaw fire, 15 March 2026, with 143 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 110,060 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 36,065 hectares, 9.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 5× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 3× 26
29
fires
11
years with fire
110,060
cumulative ha
36,065
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 Lashio

  1. 143 ha Hsipaw fire, 15 March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,304 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 3,449 ha Lashio fire, March 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,606 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 7,686 ha Hsipaw fire, 28 February 2026 2.0% of the municipality · 23,236 ha in total · 38 days
  4. 4,715 ha Lashio fire, March 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,923 ha in total · 20 days
  5. 6,100 ha Lashio fire, February 2024 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 6,156 ha in total · 24 days
  6. 21 ha Namtu fire, March 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 2,879 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 2,934 ha Lashio fire, 14 February 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,925 ha in total · 13 days
  8. 2,131 ha Lashio fire, 11 February 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,157 ha in total · 16 days
  9. 265 ha Mongyai fire, March 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 2,070 ha in total · 10 days
  10. 8,583 ha Lashio fire, March 2022 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 11,673 ha in total · 19 days
  11. 4,707 ha Lashio fire, 21 March 2021 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 5,815 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 218 ha Hsipaw fire, 11 March 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 6,482 ha in total · 16 days
  13. 10,510 ha Lashio fire, 2 March 2021 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 10,519 ha in total · 23 days
  14. 2,166 ha Lashio fire, 4 March 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,159 ha in total · 14 days
  15. 5,371 ha Lashio fire, 2 March 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 5,460 ha in total · 22 days
  16. 106 ha Hsipaw fire, 27 March 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 2,926 ha in total · 11 days
  17. 3,249 ha Lashio fire, 23 March 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,296 ha in total · 13 days
  18. 12,543 ha Lashio fire, 15 March 2019 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 12,510 ha in total · 21 days
  19. 2,797 ha Lashio fire, 22 March 2018 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,923 ha in total · 17 days
  20. 15,021 ha Lashio fire, 13 March 2018 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 22,027 ha in total · 20 days
  21. 16 ha Namtu fire, March 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 2,525 ha in total · 8 days
  22. 1,256 ha Hsipaw fire, 18 March 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 2,093 ha in total · 16 days
  23. 2,845 ha Lashio fire, 18 March 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,836 ha in total · 11 days
  24. 4,342 ha Lashio fire, 14 March 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 4,352 ha in total · 14 days
  25. 2,098 ha Lashio fire, 9 April 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,088 ha in total · 8 days
  26. 2,029 ha Lashio fire, 7 April 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,018 ha in total · 9 days
  27. 374 ha Namtu fire, 20 March 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 7,354 ha in total · 13 days
  28. 2,355 ha Lashio fire, 18 March 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,348 ha in total · 14 days
  29. 2,031 ha Lashio fire, 17 March 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,025 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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