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Wildfires in Pyinoolwin

Pyinoolwin, Myanmar, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 9,678 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.8% 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 25 Very low 26° · 62 % · 20 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 26° · 68 % · 19 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 26° · 66 % · 26 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 26° · 59 % · 30 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 25° · 69 % · 19 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 61 % · 20 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 26° · 63 % · 24 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 26° · 67 % · 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

9,678
hectares burned
4.8 %
of its area
7
fires
1,999
km²

How many times has Pyinoolwin burned?

Pyinoolwin has burned 7 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2021, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Madaya fire, 27 February 2026, with 4,873 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 4× 26
7
fires
4
years with fire
9,678
cumulative ha
27 Feb 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 Pyinoolwin

  1. 4,873 ha Madaya fire, 27 February 2026 2.4% of the municipality · 5,902 ha in total · 22 days
  2. 17 ha Kyaukse fire, 12 February 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,213 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 456 ha Madaya fire, 6 February 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 2,534 ha in total · 14 days
  4. 2,309 ha Pyinoolwin fire, February 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,302 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 1 ha Pyinoolwin fire, February 2025 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 2,201 ha in total · 15 days
  6. 2,014 ha Pyinoolwin fire, February 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,008 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 8 ha Kyaukse fire, 22 February 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,377 ha in total · 16 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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