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Wildfires in Pauk

Pauk, Myanmar, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 19,560 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.9% 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. Wed 11 Very low 26° · 57 % · 21 km/h
  2. Thu 12 Very low 26° · 66 % · 25 km/h
  3. Fri 13 Very low 27° · 56 % · 24 km/h
  4. Sat 14 Very low 29° · 52 % · 14 km/h
  5. Sun 15 Very low 28° · 56 % · 18 km/h
  6. Mon 16 Very low 28° · 54 % · 21 km/h
  7. Tue 17 Very low 26° · 64 % · 15 km/h
  8. Wed 18 Very low 25° · 75 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Pauk: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

19,560
hectares burned
7.9 %
of its area
10
fires
2,465
km²

How many times has Pauk burned?

Pauk has burned 10 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2019, 2021, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Tilin fire, 6 March 2026, with 148 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 19,560 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 16,943 hectares, 6.9 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 4× 26
10
fires
5
years with fire
19,560
cumulative ha
16,943
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 Pauk

  1. 148 ha Tilin fire, 6 March 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 2,424 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 91 ha Saw fire, 1 March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,809 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 2,634 ha Pauk fire, 25 February 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,618 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 4,407 ha Pauk fire, 19 February 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 5,940 ha in total · 29 days
  5. 2,182 ha Pauk fire, March 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,170 ha in total · 14 days
  6. 1,551 ha Pauk fire, 8 March 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,354 ha in total · 16 days
  7. 3,113 ha Pauk fire, 5 March 2024 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,418 ha in total · 21 days
  8. 2,111 ha Pauk fire, 3 March 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,100 ha in total · 17 days
  9. 2,240 ha Gangaw fire, 23 February 2021 0.9% of the municipality · 3,469 ha in total · 11 days
  10. 1,082 ha Pauk fire, March 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,430 ha in total · 18 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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