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Wildfires in Mongnai

Mongnai, Myanmar, has had 24 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 41,392 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 13% 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. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 48 % · 19 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 46 % · 25 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 59 % · 18 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 52 % · 16 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 31° · 52 % · 17 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 31° · 48 % · 22 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 30° · 57 % · 25 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 28° · 66 % · 26 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

41,392
hectares burned
13 %
of its area
24
fires
3,230
km²

How many times has Mongnai burned?

Mongnai has burned 24 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Nansang fire, 23 March 2026, with 165 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 41,392 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 35,838 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 11× 26
24
fires
9
years with fire
41,392
cumulative ha
35,838
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 Mongnai

  1. 165 ha Nansang fire, 23 March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,091 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 1,920 ha Mongnai fire, 21 March 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,163 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 2,907 ha Mongnai fire, 21 March 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,894 ha in total · 14 days
  4. 54 ha Kunhing fire, 21 March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,821 ha in total · 15 days
  5. 25 ha Langkho fire, 19 March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,504 ha in total · 17 days
  6. 2,704 ha Mongnai fire, 19 March 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,693 ha in total · 17 days
  7. 2,251 ha Langkho fire, 19 March 2026 0.7% of the municipality · 6,032 ha in total · 16 days
  8. 1,875 ha Mongnai fire, 19 March 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 62,950 ha in total · 24 days
  9. 10,407 ha Mongnai fire, 18 March 2026 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 10,360 ha in total · 18 days
  10. 2,086 ha Mongnai fire, 16 March 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,077 ha in total · 20 days
  11. 1,317 ha Nansang fire, 23 February 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 3,042 ha in total · 14 days
  12. 584 ha Mongnai fire, March 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,196 ha in total · 24 days
  13. 374 ha Mongton fire, 21 March 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 4,490 ha in total · 15 days
  14. 930 ha Nansang fire, February 2023 0.3% of the municipality · 2,903 ha in total · 14 days
  15. 932 ha Mongnai fire, February 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,273 ha in total · 10 days
  16. 2,075 ha Mongnai fire, March 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,067 ha in total · 4 days
  17. 690 ha Mongnai fire, 16 March 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,369 ha in total · 13 days
  18. 2,055 ha Mongnai fire, 12 March 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,047 ha in total · 19 days
  19. 2,607 ha Mongnai fire, 27 March 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,596 ha in total · 15 days
  20. 966 ha Mongnai fire, 21 March 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,978 ha in total · 16 days
  21. 1,429 ha Mongnai fire, 9 March 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,003 ha in total · 11 days
  22. 665 ha Nansang fire, 15 March 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 3,145 ha in total · 25 days
  23. 2,361 ha Mongnai fire, March 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,351 ha in total · 15 days
  24. 14 ha Mongping fire, 18 March 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 5,509 ha in total · 17 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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