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Wildfires in Salin

Salin, Myanmar, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2022: 15,855 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.8% 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. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 59 % · 17 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 54 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 33° · 55 % · 16 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 59 % · 19 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 32° · 65 % · 18 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 32° · 62 % · 18 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 63 % · 18 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 32° · 61 % · 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

15,855
hectares burned
6.8 %
of its area
7
fires
2,324
km²

How many times has Salin burned?

Salin has burned 7 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Sidoktaya fire, 6 March 2026, with 269 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 15,855 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 11,727 hectares, 5.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11. 3× 26
7
fires
4
years with fire
15,855
cumulative ha
11,727
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 Salin

  1. 269 ha Sidoktaya fire, 6 March 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 2,346 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 2,447 ha Saw fire, 18 February 2026 1.0% of the municipality · 99,370 ha in total · 64 days
  3. 2,049 ha Salin fire, February 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,040 ha in total · 16 days
  4. 2,580 ha Salin fire, March 2024 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 4,753 ha in total · 16 days
  5. 3,535 ha Salin fire, February 2024 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,772 ha in total · 15 days
  6. 3,881 ha Salin fire, February 2023 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 4,536 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 1,093 ha Saw fire, 8 March 2022 0.5% of the municipality · 3,542 ha in total · 12 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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