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Wildfires in Nansang

Nansang, Myanmar, has had 15 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 48,736 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 13% 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. Mon 9 Very low 22° · 87 % · 29 km/h
  2. Tue 10 Very low 17° · 97 % · 27 km/h
  3. Wed 11 Very low 17° · 95 % · 22 km/h
  4. Thu 12 Very low 20° · 85 % · 21 km/h
  5. Fri 13 Very low 23° · 57 % · 18 km/h
  6. Sat 14 Very low 25° · 51 % · 20 km/h
  7. Sun 15 Very low 25° · 52 % · 19 km/h
  8. Mon 16 Very low 25° · 53 % · 17 km/h
  9. Tue 17 Very low 26° · 57 % · 15 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 Nansang: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

48,736
hectares burned
13 %
of its area
15
fires
3,692
km²

How many times has Nansang burned?

Nansang has burned 15 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Nansang fire, 23 March 2026, with 1,935 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 48,736 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 36,323 hectares, 9.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 6× 26
15
fires
8
years with fire
48,736
cumulative ha
36,323
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 Nansang

  1. 1,935 ha Nansang fire, 23 March 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,091 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 1,345 ha Kunhing fire, 21 March 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 2,821 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 17,514 ha Nansang fire, 18 March 2026 where it started 4.7% of the municipality · 21,534 ha in total · 18 days
  4. 679 ha Kunhing fire, 18 March 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 15,093 ha in total · 18 days
  5. 1,736 ha Nansang fire, 23 February 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,042 ha in total · 17 days
  6. 1,554 ha Nansang fire, 2 February 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,003 ha in total · 11 days
  7. 2,058 ha Nansang fire, March 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,251 ha in total · 12 days
  8. 1,624 ha Mongnai fire, March 2024 0.4% of the municipality · 2,196 ha in total · 24 days
  9. 1,983 ha Nansang fire, February 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,903 ha in total · 14 days
  10. 1,348 ha Mongnai fire, February 2022 0.4% of the municipality · 2,273 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 4,510 ha Nansang fire, 5 March 2021 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,484 ha in total · 22 days
  12. 2,883 ha Nansang fire, 1 March 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,868 ha in total · 26 days
  13. 5,039 ha Nansang fire, 24 March 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 5,011 ha in total · 21 days
  14. 2,493 ha Nansang fire, 15 March 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,145 ha in total · 25 days
  15. 2,036 ha Nansang fire, March 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,024 ha in total · 19 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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