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Wildfires in Matupi

Matupi, Myanmar, has had 51 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 106,392 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 18% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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. Fri 13 Very low 21° · 53 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Very low 20° · 60 % · 39 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Low 20° · 40 % · 36 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Low 21° · 35 % · 34 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Low 20° · 31 % · 34 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Very low 18° · 59 % · 25 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Very low 19° · 84 % · 36 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Very low 21° · 82 % · 30 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 Matupi: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

106,392
hectares burned
18 %
of its area
51
fires
5,937
km²

How many times has Matupi burned?

Matupi has burned 51 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Matupi fire, 13 April 2026, with 2,063 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 6× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 11× 23
  9. 4× 24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 9× 26
51
fires
11
years with fire
106,392
cumulative ha
13 Apr 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 Matupi

  1. 2,063 ha Matupi fire, 13 April 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,052 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 2,024 ha Matupi fire, 12 April 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,270 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 8,603 ha Matupi fire, 8 April 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 8,920 ha in total · 17 days
  4. 2 ha Mindat fire, 8 April 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 4,668 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 1,062 ha Hakha fire, 1 April 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 2,510 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 2,047 ha Matupi fire, 1 April 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,048 ha in total · 15 days
  7. 694 ha Tilin fire, February 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 5,105 ha in total · 29 days
  8. 1,916 ha Gangaw fire, February 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 3,264 ha in total · 18 days
  9. 3,302 ha Hakha fire, 5 February 2026 0.6% of the municipality · 9,334 ha in total · 20 days
  10. 879 ha Thantlang fire, 29 March 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 4,051 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 2,330 ha Tilin fire, 16 March 2025 0.4% of the municipality · 3,130 ha in total · 7 days
  12. 769 ha Tilin fire, 1 March 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 3,344 ha in total · 9 days
  13. 928 ha Hakha fire, 25 February 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 4,624 ha in total · 16 days
  14. 1,610 ha Matupi fire, 13 March 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,592 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 1,071 ha Matupi fire, 5 March 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,714 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 223 ha Hakha fire, February 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 6,347 ha in total · 22 days
  17. 7,533 ha Tilin fire, February 2024 1.3% of the municipality · 13,183 ha in total · 24 days
  18. 1,098 ha Matupi fire, 14 April 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,053 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 2,918 ha Matupi fire, 10 April 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,072 ha in total · 10 days
  20. 2,168 ha Matupi fire, 8 April 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,161 ha in total · 8 days
  21. 2,418 ha Matupi fire, 8 April 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,405 ha in total · 12 days
  22. 1,142 ha Matupi fire, 7 April 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,430 ha in total · 12 days
  23. 491 ha Mindat fire, 5 April 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 2,908 ha in total · 15 days
  24. 1,332 ha Hakha fire, 4 April 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 12,329 ha in total · 25 days
  25. 3,540 ha Matupi fire, 3 April 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,521 ha in total · 19 days
  26. 21 ha Tilin fire, March 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 2,011 ha in total · 6 days
  27. 1,103 ha Tilin fire, February 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 4,588 ha in total · 10 days
  28. 4,647 ha Gangaw fire, January 2023 0.8% of the municipality · 13,640 ha in total · 24 days
  29. 2,563 ha Matupi fire, April 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,546 ha in total · 8 days
  30. 1,717 ha Matupi fire, March 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,515 ha in total · 4 days
  31. 2,410 ha Matupi fire, 24 March 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,398 ha in total · 11 days
  32. 2,105 ha Matupi fire, 13 March 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,094 ha in total · 13 days
  33. 3,292 ha Tilin fire, 21 February 2021 0.6% of the municipality · 5,224 ha in total · 11 days
  34. 8 ha Hakha fire, 28 March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 3,041 ha in total · 12 days
  35. 3,802 ha Matupi fire, March 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,778 ha in total · 18 days
  36. 1,158 ha Gangaw fire, February 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 3,575 ha in total · 16 days
  37. 3,716 ha Matupi fire, 9 March 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,695 ha in total · 18 days
  38. 3,254 ha Matupi fire, 8 March 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,233 ha in total · 16 days
  39. 2,017 ha Gangaw fire, February 2019 0.3% of the municipality · 3,150 ha in total · 14 days
  40. 4,539 ha Tilin fire, February 2019 0.8% of the municipality · 11,564 ha in total · 22 days
  41. 2,092 ha Matupi fire, March 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,080 ha in total · 13 days
  42. 18 ha Hakha fire, 25 February 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 2,636 ha in total · 9 days
  43. 4,724 ha Matupi fire, February 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,937 ha in total · 14 days
  44. 1,374 ha Tilin fire, 18 February 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 3,544 ha in total · 16 days
  45. 37 ha Tilin fire, 18 February 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 2,001 ha in total · 13 days
  46. 1,769 ha Mindat fire, 6 April 2016 0.3% of the municipality · 3,114 ha in total · 13 days
  47. 561 ha Mindat fire, 5 April 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 3,805 ha in total · 16 days
  48. 1,795 ha Hakha fire, 4 March 2016 0.3% of the municipality · 2,706 ha in total · 13 days
  49. 847 ha Matupi fire, March 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,153 ha in total · 8 days
  50. 3,209 ha Gangaw fire, 28 February 2016 0.5% of the municipality · 4,326 ha in total · 19 days
  51. 1,449 ha Gangaw fire, 10 February 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 4,111 ha in total · 14 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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