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Wildfires in Pyawbwe

Pyawbwe, Myanmar, has had 13 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 10,311 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.2% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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 28 Very low 31° · 62 % · 22 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 51 % · 18 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 57 % · 26 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 62 % · 19 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 59 % · 23 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 32° · 64 % · 26 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 31° · 64 % · 22 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 31° · 70 % · 19 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

10,311
hectares burned
6.2 %
of its area
13
fires
1,654
km²

How many times has Pyawbwe burned?

Pyawbwe has burned 13 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Yamethin fire, 18 March 2026, with 403 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 10,311 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 6,738 hectares, 4.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 3× 26
13
fires
10
years with fire
10,311
cumulative ha
6,738
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 Pyawbwe

  1. 403 ha Yamethin fire, 18 March 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 5,634 ha in total · 26 days
  2. 3,918 ha Thazi fire, 26 February 2026 2.4% of the municipality · 8,899 ha in total · 22 days
  3. 2,303 ha Thazi fire, 12 February 2026 1.4% of the municipality · 2,960 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 330 ha Yamethin fire, March 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 4,201 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 41 ha Thazi fire, 4 March 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 2,049 ha in total · 16 days
  6. 511 ha Yamethin fire, March 2024 0.3% of the municipality · 5,088 ha in total · 15 days
  7. 414 ha Thazi fire, March 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 2,307 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 251 ha Yamethin fire, March 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 3,978 ha in total · 20 days
  9. 589 ha Yamethin fire, March 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 5,712 ha in total · 27 days
  10. 327 ha Yamethin fire, March 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 6,465 ha in total · 28 days
  11. 392 ha Yamethin fire, March 2018 0.2% of the municipality · 3,222 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 456 ha Yamethin fire, March 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 3,974 ha in total · 18 days
  13. 376 ha Yamethin fire, 19 March 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 4,599 ha in total · 17 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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