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Wildfires in Mindat

Mindat, Myanmar, has had 26 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 57,487 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 18% 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. Wed 28 Very low 20° · 66 % · 33 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 20° · 63 % · 27 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 22° · 57 % · 23 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 22° · 61 % · 23 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 23° · 55 % · 20 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 22° · 73 % · 22 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 23° · 61 % · 21 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 22° · 58 % · 20 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

57,487
hectares burned
18 %
of its area
26
fires
3,276
km²

How many times has Mindat burned?

Mindat has burned 26 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Mindat fire, 10 April 2026, with 3,567 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 57,487 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 45,333 hectares, 14 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7.   22
  8. 5× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 9× 26
26
fires
7
years with fire
57,487
cumulative ha
45,333
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 Mindat

  1. 3,567 ha Mindat fire, 10 April 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,544 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 429 ha Matupi fire, 8 April 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 8,984 ha in total · 17 days
  3. 4,696 ha Mindat fire, 8 April 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 4,668 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 2,080 ha Mindat fire, 3 April 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,068 ha in total · 16 days
  5. 1,019 ha Matupi fire, 1 April 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 3,048 ha in total · 15 days
  6. 2,716 ha Mindat fire, 24 March 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,703 ha in total · 14 days
  7. 1,111 ha Saw fire, 23 March 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 2,742 ha in total · 20 days
  8. 327 ha Mindat fire, 6 March 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,050 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 3,379 ha Mindat fire, February 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 8,843 ha in total · 22 days
  10. 861 ha Saw fire, March 2024 0.3% of the municipality · 4,511 ha in total · 15 days
  11. 2,436 ha Mindat fire, 5 April 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,908 ha in total · 15 days
  12. 2,214 ha Mindat fire, 4 April 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,214 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 6,620 ha Mindat fire, 4 April 2023 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 7,905 ha in total · 18 days
  14. 1 ha Matupi fire, 3 April 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 3,521 ha in total · 19 days
  15. 501 ha Tilin fire, 30 March 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 2,224 ha in total · 16 days
  16. 2,236 ha Mindat fire, 31 March 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,225 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 3,199 ha Mindat fire, 15 March 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,186 ha in total · 19 days
  18. 4,607 ha Mindat fire, February 2021 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 4,631 ha in total · 18 days
  19. 156 ha Saw fire, 24 February 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,449 ha in total · 11 days
  20. 1,134 ha Mindat fire, 31 March 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,126 ha in total · 10 days
  21. 2,543 ha Mindat fire, 9 March 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,022 ha in total · 20 days
  22. 2,388 ha Mindat fire, March 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,376 ha in total · 12 days
  23. 2,057 ha Saw fire, March 2019 0.6% of the municipality · 5,884 ha in total · 29 days
  24. 2,583 ha Mindat fire, 15 April 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,567 ha in total · 15 days
  25. 1,363 ha Mindat fire, 6 April 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,114 ha in total · 13 days
  26. 3,267 ha Mindat fire, 5 April 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,805 ha in total · 16 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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