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Wildfires in Pekon

Pekon, Myanmar, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 9,126 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.4% 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. Sun 8 Very low 24° · 76 % · 21 km/h
  2. Mon 9 Very low 23° · 71 % · 28 km/h
  3. Tue 10 Very low 20° · 90 % · 21 km/h
  4. Wed 11 Very low 20° · 92 % · 15 km/h
  5. Thu 12 Very low 23° · 66 % · 25 km/h
  6. Fri 13 Very low 24° · 64 % · 26 km/h
  7. Sat 14 Very low 24° · 60 % · 27 km/h
  8. Sun 15 Very low 23° · 55 % · 29 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 Pekon: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

9,126
hectares burned
4.4 %
of its area
12
fires
2,084
km²

How many times has Pekon burned?

Pekon has burned 12 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Pinlaung fire, 17 April 2026, with 155 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 4× 26
12
fires
6
years with fire
9,126
cumulative ha
17 Apr 2026
most recent

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 Pekon

  1. 155 ha Pinlaung fire, 17 April 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 3,539 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 2,669 ha Pekon fire, March 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,881 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 0 ha Hsihseng fire, March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 5,963 ha in total · 19 days
  4. 1,476 ha Loikaw fire, 16 March 2026 0.7% of the municipality · 4,702 ha in total · 19 days
  5. 2 ha Nyaungshwe fire, January 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 5,000 ha in total · 21 days
  6. 4 ha Pinlaung fire, January 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 7,858 ha in total · 17 days
  7. 2,462 ha Pekon fire, March 2021 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,153 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 2,249 ha Pekon fire, April 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,238 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 8 ha Hpruso fire, 23 March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 4,268 ha in total · 20 days
  10. 9 ha Nyaungshwe fire, 1 February 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 7,895 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 81 ha Pinlaung fire, 3 April 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 2,173 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 10 ha Nyaungshwe fire, 2 February 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 5,772 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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