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Wildfires in Mindon

Mindon, Myanmar, has had 42 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 125,864 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 49% 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. Tue 27 Very low 32° · 58 % · 21 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 56 % · 21 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 58 % · 20 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 33° · 62 % · 21 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 63 % · 24 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 61 % · 19 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 33° · 56 % · 26 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 32° · 62 % · 16 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

125,864
hectares burned
49 %
of its area
42
fires
2,561
km²

How many times has Mindon burned?

Mindon has burned 42 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mindon fire, 26 March 2026, with 2,419 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 125,864 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 87,856 hectares, 34 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 5× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 5× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 12× 26
42
fires
11
years with fire
125,864
cumulative ha
87,856
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 Mindon

  1. 2,419 ha Mindon fire, 26 March 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,404 ha in total · 17 days
  2. 2,878 ha Mindon fire, 23 March 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,864 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 3,192 ha Mindon fire, 22 March 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,173 ha in total · 19 days
  4. 4,475 ha Mindon fire, 15 March 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 4,451 ha in total · 23 days
  5. 61 ha Minhla fire, 12 March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 6,118 ha in total · 18 days
  6. 4,074 ha Minhla fire, 10 March 2026 1.6% of the municipality · 8,345 ha in total · 21 days
  7. 2,945 ha Mindon fire, 3 March 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,927 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 2,032 ha Mindon fire, 1 March 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,020 ha in total · 17 days
  9. 6,136 ha Mindon fire, 26 February 2026 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 6,098 ha in total · 12 days
  10. 6,771 ha Mindon fire, 25 February 2026 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 6,737 ha in total · 26 days
  11. 977 ha Mindon fire, 23 February 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,375 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 3,639 ha Mindon fire, 8 February 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,619 ha in total · 12 days
  13. 2,019 ha Mindon fire, March 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,008 ha in total · 13 days
  14. 10,787 ha Mindon fire, 25 February 2025 where it started 4.2% of the municipality · 11,923 ha in total · 19 days
  15. 2,093 ha Mindon fire, 25 February 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,082 ha in total · 11 days
  16. 2,083 ha Mindon fire, March 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,071 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 8,600 ha Mindon fire, February 2024 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 9,792 ha in total · 25 days
  18. 4,175 ha Mindon fire, March 2023 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 4,284 ha in total · 22 days
  19. 2,921 ha Mindon fire, February 2023 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,910 ha in total · 5 days
  20. 3,855 ha Mindon fire, March 2022 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,847 ha in total · 15 days
  21. 2,664 ha Mindon fire, February 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,650 ha in total · 18 days
  22. 2,435 ha Mindon fire, 23 March 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,421 ha in total · 8 days
  23. 2,121 ha Mindon fire, 21 March 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,109 ha in total · 11 days
  24. 1,759 ha Minhla fire, March 2021 0.7% of the municipality · 2,258 ha in total · 3 days
  25. 4,364 ha Mindon fire, 24 February 2021 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 4,379 ha in total · 14 days
  26. 2,576 ha Mindon fire, 24 February 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,563 ha in total · 14 days
  27. 2,721 ha Mindon fire, April 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 5,686 ha in total · 22 days
  28. 1,797 ha Mindon fire, 20 March 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,295 ha in total · 6 days
  29. 1,849 ha Mindon fire, 1 March 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,049 ha in total · 20 days
  30. 2,698 ha Mindon fire, 3 April 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,908 ha in total · 14 days
  31. 1,334 ha Mindon fire, 2 April 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,061 ha in total · 11 days
  32. 2,948 ha Mindon fire, 1 April 2019 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,937 ha in total · 10 days
  33. 1,103 ha Thayet fire, March 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 3,040 ha in total · 15 days
  34. 2,697 ha Mindon fire, March 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,683 ha in total · 8 days
  35. 1,777 ha Mindon fire, February 2018 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,276 ha in total · 17 days
  36. 903 ha Minhla fire, 24 March 2017 0.4% of the municipality · 3,566 ha in total · 9 days
  37. 1,816 ha Mindon fire, 24 March 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,948 ha in total · 2 days
  38. 2,118 ha Mindon fire, 14 March 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,106 ha in total · 6 days
  39. 6,140 ha Mindon fire, February 2017 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 6,106 ha in total · 17 days
  40. 2,106 ha Mindon fire, April 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,094 ha in total · 4 days
  41. 1,739 ha Mindon fire, March 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,119 ha in total · 10 days
  42. 65 ha Minhla fire, March 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 2,250 ha in total · 3 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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