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Wildfires in Minbya

Minbya, Myanmar, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2023: 30,749 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.9% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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. Tue 3 Very low 31° · 64 % · 18 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very low 31° · 57 % · 20 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very low 30° · 60 % · 19 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 30° · 64 % · 18 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 30° · 66 % · 19 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 30° · 65 % · 25 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 28° · 72 % · 22 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 25° · 79 % · 29 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

30,749
hectares burned
8.9 %
of its area
11
fires
3,438
km²

How many times has Minbya burned?

Minbya has burned 11 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Minbya fire, 3 April 2026, with 2,034 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 30,749 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 28,701 hectares, 8.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 6× 23
  9.   24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 2× 26
11
fires
3
years with fire
30,749
cumulative ha
28,701
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 Minbya

  1. 2,034 ha Minbya fire, 3 April 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,022 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 4,975 ha Minbya fire, 1 April 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 4,948 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 1,357 ha Minbya fire, 24 March 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,066 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 467 ha Myebon fire, March 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 6,309 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 4,242 ha Minbya fire, 5 March 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,216 ha in total · 23 days
  6. 2,036 ha Minbya fire, 8 April 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,028 ha in total · 14 days
  7. 2,296 ha Minbya fire, 8 April 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,282 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 600 ha Paletwa fire, 7 April 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 10,053 ha in total · 19 days
  9. 7,479 ha Minbya fire, 6 April 2023 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 7,432 ha in total · 13 days
  10. 2,571 ha Minbya fire, 6 April 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,556 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 2,691 ha Minbya fire, 4 April 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,290 ha in total · 20 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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