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Wildfires in Namtu

Namtu, Myanmar, has had 16 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 43,840 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 27% 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. Wed 11 Very low 19° · 84 % · 16 km/h
  2. Thu 12 Very low 20° · 87 % · 17 km/h
  3. Fri 13 Very low 24° · 56 % · 15 km/h
  4. Sat 14 Very low 24° · 55 % · 18 km/h
  5. Sun 15 Very low 24° · 58 % · 25 km/h
  6. Mon 16 Very low 25° · 59 % · 25 km/h
  7. Tue 17 Very low 26° · 52 % · 17 km/h
  8. Wed 18 Very low 22° · 80 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Namtu: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

43,840
hectares burned
27 %
of its area
16
fires
1,625
km²

How many times has Namtu burned?

Namtu has burned 16 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Namtu fire, 25 March 2026, with 2,573 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 43,840 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 35,688 hectares, 22 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 2× 26
16
fires
10
years with fire
43,840
cumulative ha
35,688
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 Namtu

  1. 2,573 ha Namtu fire, 25 March 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,559 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 5,465 ha Namtu fire, 15 March 2026 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 5,448 ha in total · 23 days
  3. 1,488 ha Namtu fire, 30 March 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,221 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 2,184 ha Namtu fire, 26 March 2025 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,174 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 2,017 ha Manton fire, April 2024 1.2% of the municipality · 2,334 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 2,875 ha Namtu fire, March 2023 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,879 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 4,713 ha Namtu fire, 17 March 2022 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 4,687 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 2,599 ha Namtu fire, 11 March 2022 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,589 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 1,139 ha Lashio fire, 21 March 2021 0.7% of the municipality · 5,815 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 2,362 ha Namtu fire, February 2021 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,604 ha in total · 20 days
  11. 2,051 ha Namtu fire, March 2019 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,040 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 142 ha Lashio fire, 22 March 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 2,923 ha in total · 17 days
  13. 2,521 ha Namtu fire, March 2017 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,525 ha in total · 8 days
  14. 2,603 ha Namtu fire, 24 March 2016 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,591 ha in total · 7 days
  15. 2,091 ha Namtu fire, 20 March 2016 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,083 ha in total · 13 days
  16. 7,017 ha Namtu fire, 20 March 2016 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 7,354 ha in total · 13 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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