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Wildfires in Mongyai

Mongyai, Myanmar, has had 14 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 22,351 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.3% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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 3 Very low 28° · 52 % · 29 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Low 28° · 48 % · 31 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Low 29° · 41 % · 28 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Low 28° · 47 % · 24 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 26° · 67 % · 19 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 24° · 85 % · 23 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 23° · 70 % · 34 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 18° · 95 % · 23 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

22,351
hectares burned
9.3 %
of its area
14
fires
2,413
km²

How many times has Mongyai burned?

Mongyai has burned 14 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mongyai fire, 17 March 2026, with 4,923 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 22,351 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 16,777 hectares, 7.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 3× 26
14
fires
9
years with fire
22,351
cumulative ha
16,777
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 Mongyai

  1. 4,923 ha Mongyai fire, 17 March 2026 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 4,901 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 2,339 ha Hsipaw fire, 4 March 2026 1.0% of the municipality · 23,236 ha in total · 27 days
  3. 2,273 ha Mongyai fire, 1 March 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,787 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 2,649 ha Mongyai fire, March 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,640 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 104 ha Hsipaw fire, 26 March 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 2,129 ha in total · 19 days
  6. 720 ha Mongyai fire, March 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,070 ha in total · 10 days
  7. 707 ha Hsipaw fire, 7 March 2022 0.3% of the municipality · 5,901 ha in total · 15 days
  8. 1,128 ha Hsipaw fire, 12 March 2021 0.5% of the municipality · 2,152 ha in total · 19 days
  9. 2,109 ha Mongyai fire, March 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,100 ha in total · 19 days
  10. 19 ha Hsipaw fire, March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,325 ha in total · 17 days
  11. 2,424 ha Mongyai fire, March 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,413 ha in total · 18 days
  12. 2,197 ha Mongyai fire, March 2018 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,185 ha in total · 14 days
  13. 43 ha Lashio fire, 13 March 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 22,027 ha in total · 20 days
  14. 717 ha Hsipaw fire, 18 March 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 2,093 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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