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Wildfires in Mabein

Mabein, Myanmar, has had 16 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 52,922 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 10% 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. Sun 1 Low 30° · 60 % · 16 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Low 31° · 62 % · 16 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 31° · 63 % · 18 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Low 30° · 65 % · 18 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Low 31° · 56 % · 15 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Low 31° · 56 % · 16 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 31° · 59 % · 18 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 29° · 72 % · 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

52,922
hectares burned
10 %
of its area
16
fires
5,051
km²

How many times has Mabein burned?

Mabein has burned 16 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mabein fire, April 2026, with 6,050 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 52,922 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 48,401 hectares, 9.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 4× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 5× 26
16
fires
5
years with fire
52,922
cumulative ha
48,401
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 Mabein

  1. 6,050 ha Mabein fire, April 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 6,037 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 625 ha Mongmit fire, March 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 2,483 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 3,974 ha Mabein fire, 23 March 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,963 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 2,205 ha Mabein fire, 16 March 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,200 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 5,480 ha Mabein fire, 5 March 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 5,471 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 3,014 ha Mabein fire, March 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,006 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 2,773 ha Mabein fire, February 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,763 ha in total · 19 days
  8. 179 ha Mongmit fire, February 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 4,563 ha in total · 24 days
  9. 213 ha Mongmit fire, March 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 3,788 ha in total · 14 days
  10. 2,121 ha Mabein fire, 12 March 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,115 ha in total · 13 days
  11. 14,194 ha Mabein fire, 4 March 2024 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 19,322 ha in total · 15 days
  12. 2,878 ha Thabeikkyin fire, 2 March 2024 0.6% of the municipality · 8,745 ha in total · 17 days
  13. 19 ha Mongmit fire, April 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 2,687 ha in total · 15 days
  14. 4,942 ha Mabein fire, April 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,929 ha in total · 17 days
  15. 2,248 ha Mabein fire, March 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,294 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 2,007 ha Mabein fire, March 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,004 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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