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Wildfires in Letpadan

Letpadan, Myanmar, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 12,906 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.7% 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 2 Very low 34° · 56 % · 19 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 33° · 59 % · 35 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 33° · 55 % · 23 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 33° · 60 % · 17 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 32° · 67 % · 24 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 31° · 71 % · 28 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 31° · 68 % · 36 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 32° · 55 % · 32 km/h
  9. Tue 10 Very low 29° · 72 % · 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

12,906
hectares burned
8.7 %
of its area
5
fires
1,478
km²

How many times has Letpadan burned?

Letpadan has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Letpadan fire, 23 March 2026, with 2,069 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 12,906 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 9,305 hectares, 6.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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5
fires
4
years with fire
12,906
cumulative ha
9,305
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 Letpadan

  1. 2,069 ha Letpadan fire, 23 March 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,055 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 6,705 ha Letpadan fire, 13 March 2026 where it started 4.5% of the municipality · 6,690 ha in total · 22 days
  3. 69 ha Minhla fire, February 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 2,316 ha in total · 16 days
  4. 4,054 ha Letpadan fire, February 2024 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 4,029 ha in total · 19 days
  5. 10 ha Bago fire, March 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 2,330 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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