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Wildfires in Mongkaing

Mongkaing, Myanmar, has had 27 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 53,389 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 14% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 25° · 62 % · 27 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 26° · 55 % · 24 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 53 % · 21 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 49 % · 20 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 27° · 55 % · 23 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 27° · 61 % · 23 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 27° · 60 % · 22 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 26° · 67 % · 25 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

53,389
hectares burned
14 %
of its area
27
fires
3,797
km²

How many times has Mongkaing burned?

Mongkaing has burned 27 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mongkaing fire, 24 March 2026, with 266 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 53,389 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 39,946 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6.   21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 9× 26
27
fires
8
years with fire
53,389
cumulative ha
39,946
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 Mongkaing

  1. 266 ha Mongkaing fire, 24 March 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,732 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 3,526 ha Mongkaing fire, 18 March 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,668 ha in total · 19 days
  3. 811 ha Lawksawk fire, 16 March 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 5,674 ha in total · 21 days
  4. 7,203 ha Mongkaing fire, 14 March 2026 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 7,170 ha in total · 21 days
  5. 435 ha Lawksawk fire, 13 March 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 6,966 ha in total · 25 days
  6. 710 ha Lawksawk fire, 23 February 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 17,068 ha in total · 44 days
  7. 721 ha Lawksawk fire, 5 February 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 3,110 ha in total · 17 days
  8. 3,016 ha Mongkaing fire, January 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,531 ha in total · 25 days
  9. 3,317 ha Hsipaw fire, 16 January 2026 0.9% of the municipality · 11,940 ha in total · 31 days
  10. 197 ha Lawksawk fire, 7 March 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 2,257 ha in total · 22 days
  11. 3,052 ha Mongkaing fire, March 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,037 ha in total · 25 days
  12. 5,572 ha Lawksawk fire, 20 February 2025 1.5% of the municipality · 38,375 ha in total · 36 days
  13. 419 ha Lawksawk fire, 18 February 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 2,425 ha in total · 19 days
  14. 361 ha Lawksawk fire, 19 February 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 36,894 ha in total · 35 days
  15. 2,151 ha Mongkaing fire, 18 February 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,136 ha in total · 28 days
  16. 2,688 ha Mongkaing fire, 6 February 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,164 ha in total · 22 days
  17. 64 ha Hsipaw fire, March 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 2,191 ha in total · 9 days
  18. 2,590 ha Mongkaing fire, January 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,937 ha in total · 22 days
  19. 4,741 ha Mongkaing fire, 11 March 2022 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,717 ha in total · 11 days
  20. 2,004 ha Mongkaing fire, 11 March 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,094 ha in total · 11 days
  21. 3,871 ha Mongkaing fire, 10 March 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 6,072 ha in total · 12 days
  22. 368 ha Lawksawk fire, March 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 2,957 ha in total · 20 days
  23. 1,266 ha Mongkaing fire, March 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,315 ha in total · 19 days
  24. 318 ha Hsipaw fire, 16 January 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 5,132 ha in total · 25 days
  25. 2,487 ha Mongkaing fire, 22 March 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,477 ha in total · 16 days
  26. 801 ha Mongkaing fire, 22 March 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,385 ha in total · 19 days
  27. 434 ha Lawksawk fire, March 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 2,874 ha in total · 18 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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