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Wildfires in Matman

Matman, Myanmar, has had 27 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 65,766 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 22% 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. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 54 % · 16 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 59 % · 20 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 26° · 64 % · 24 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 25° · 63 % · 24 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 26° · 67 % · 18 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 24° · 71 % · 20 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 25° · 63 % · 22 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 26° · 63 % · 19 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

65,766
hectares burned
22 %
of its area
27
fires
2,994
km²

How many times has Matman burned?

Matman has burned 27 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Matman fire, April 2026, with 5,107 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 65,766 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 46,939 hectares, 16 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 6× 21
  7.   22
  8. 4× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 5× 26
27
fires
8
years with fire
65,766
cumulative ha
46,939
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 Matman

  1. 5,107 ha Matman fire, April 2026 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 5,387 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 4,022 ha Matman fire, 31 March 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 4,010 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 3,436 ha Matman fire, 27 March 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,416 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 2,131 ha Matman fire, 26 March 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,123 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 2,658 ha Matman fire, 22 March 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,649 ha in total · 16 days
  6. 2,251 ha Matman fire, April 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,244 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 982 ha Mongping fire, 5 April 2023 0.3% of the municipality · 2,010 ha in total · 13 days
  8. 764 ha Mongkhet fire, 4 April 2023 0.3% of the municipality · 4,274 ha in total · 18 days
  9. 70 ha Mongkhet fire, 1 April 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 4,845 ha in total · 20 days
  10. 2,584 ha Matman fire, March 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,578 ha in total · 22 days
  11. 2,163 ha Matman fire, 22 April 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,150 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 2,060 ha Matman fire, 22 April 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,048 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 2,424 ha Matman fire, 26 March 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,411 ha in total · 8 days
  14. 2,720 ha Matman fire, 23 March 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,711 ha in total · 11 days
  15. 2,280 ha Matman fire, 22 March 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,270 ha in total · 12 days
  16. 2,915 ha Matman fire, 19 March 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,901 ha in total · 14 days
  17. 2,272 ha Mongping fire, 31 March 2020 0.8% of the municipality · 2,295 ha in total · 9 days
  18. 4,411 ha Matman fire, 26 March 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 4,397 ha in total · 14 days
  19. 3,390 ha Matman fire, 25 March 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,374 ha in total · 16 days
  20. 2,146 ha Matman fire, 22 March 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,132 ha in total · 7 days
  21. 19 ha Mongkhet fire, April 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 4,204 ha in total · 14 days
  22. 2,452 ha Matman fire, 10 April 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,446 ha in total · 13 days
  23. 3,035 ha Matman fire, 10 April 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,017 ha in total · 8 days
  24. 2,023 ha Matman fire, 10 April 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,016 ha in total · 10 days
  25. 3,094 ha Matman fire, March 2018 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,079 ha in total · 8 days
  26. 1,950 ha Matman fire, 12 April 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,061 ha in total · 8 days
  27. 2,407 ha Matman fire, 11 April 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,398 ha in total · 8 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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