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Wildfires in Mongkhet

Mongkhet, Myanmar, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 22,722 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.0% 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. Sat 24 Very low 26° · 52 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 27° · 46 % · 17 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 27° · 53 % · 22 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 25° · 63 % · 30 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 26° · 51 % · 25 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 50 % · 26 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 46 % · 22 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 26° · 48 % · 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

22,722
hectares burned
9.0 %
of its area
8
fires
2,527
km²

How many times has Mongkhet burned?

Mongkhet has burned 8 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2019, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Mongkhet fire, March 2026, with 2,821 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 22,722 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 19,081 hectares, 7.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 5× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
8
fires
3
years with fire
22,722
cumulative ha
19,081
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 Mongkhet

  1. 2,821 ha Mongkhet fire, March 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,806 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 2,121 ha Mongkhet fire, 12 April 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,109 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 2,913 ha Mongkhet fire, 10 April 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,898 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 8 ha Mongla fire, 7 April 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 3,584 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 4,607 ha Mongkhet fire, 6 April 2023 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 4,845 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 3,533 ha Mongkhet fire, 4 April 2023 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 4,274 ha in total · 15 days
  7. 2,509 ha Mongkhet fire, 15 May 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,905 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 4,210 ha Mongkhet fire, 6 May 2019 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 4,204 ha in total · 7 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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