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Wildfires in Saw

Saw, Myanmar, has had 53 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 126,712 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 71% 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. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 51 % · 18 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 31° · 62 % · 18 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 31° · 63 % · 13 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 70 % · 18 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Very low 30° · 68 % · 17 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very low 30° · 67 % · 22 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 29° · 72 % · 23 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 28° · 79 % · 22 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

126,712
hectares burned
71 %
of its area
53
fires
1,785
km²

How many times has Saw burned?

Saw has burned 53 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Saw fire, April 2026, with 1,400 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 5× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 6× 20
  6. 5× 21
  7. 8× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 5× 24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 11× 26
53
fires
11
years with fire
126,712
cumulative ha
10 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 Saw

  1. 1,400 ha Saw fire, April 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,723 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 1,609 ha Saw fire, 23 March 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,742 ha in total · 20 days
  3. 626 ha Saw fire, 14 March 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,200 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 1,734 ha Mindat fire, 6 March 2026 1.0% of the municipality · 2,050 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 5,722 ha Saw fire, 1 March 2026 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 17,976 ha in total · 20 days
  6. 2,735 ha Saw fire, 1 March 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,809 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 4,840 ha Saw fire, 24 February 2026 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 4,819 ha in total · 17 days
  8. 3,564 ha Seikphyu fire, February 2026 2.0% of the municipality · 5,779 ha in total · 16 days
  9. 86 ha Pauk fire, 19 February 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 5,940 ha in total · 29 days
  10. 2,497 ha Mindat fire, February 2026 1.4% of the municipality · 8,843 ha in total · 22 days
  11. 15,753 ha Saw fire, 18 February 2026 where it started 8.8% of the municipality · 99,370 ha in total · 64 days
  12. 514 ha Tilin fire, 5 March 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 9,922 ha in total · 16 days
  13. 2,251 ha Saw fire, 5 March 2025 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,501 ha in total · 11 days
  14. 4,974 ha Saw fire, 3 March 2025 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 4,958 ha in total · 16 days
  15. 2,174 ha Sidoktaya fire, March 2025 1.2% of the municipality · 5,324 ha in total · 15 days
  16. 1,441 ha Saw fire, 3 April 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 6,541 ha in total · 17 days
  17. 1,892 ha Saw fire, 3 April 2024 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,251 ha in total · 12 days
  18. 1,702 ha Saw fire, 1 April 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,511 ha in total · 7 days
  19. 399 ha Salin fire, March 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 4,753 ha in total · 16 days
  20. 309 ha Pauk fire, 5 March 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 3,418 ha in total · 21 days
  21. 11 ha Mindat fire, 4 April 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 2,214 ha in total · 7 days
  22. 2,660 ha Sidoktaya fire, 1 April 2023 1.5% of the municipality · 54,708 ha in total · 29 days
  23. 2,172 ha Saw fire, February 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,594 ha in total · 11 days
  24. 2,658 ha Saw fire, 12 March 2022 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,645 ha in total · 10 days
  25. 2,490 ha Saw fire, 12 March 2022 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,474 ha in total · 10 days
  26. 3,160 ha Saw fire, 11 March 2022 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 4,428 ha in total · 11 days
  27. 1,646 ha Kanpetlet fire, March 2022 0.9% of the municipality · 2,196 ha in total · 11 days
  28. 3,397 ha Saw fire, 10 March 2022 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 3,377 ha in total · 12 days
  29. 1,738 ha Sidoktaya fire, March 2022 1.0% of the municipality · 10,516 ha in total · 13 days
  30. 3,632 ha Saw fire, 8 March 2022 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 3,615 ha in total · 13 days
  31. 1,136 ha Saw fire, 8 March 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,542 ha in total · 12 days
  32. 45 ha Mindat fire, 3 March 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 4,631 ha in total · 9 days
  33. 3,582 ha Saw fire, March 2021 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 4,141 ha in total · 6 days
  34. 2,307 ha Saw fire, 24 February 2021 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,449 ha in total · 11 days
  35. 3,081 ha Saw fire, 23 February 2021 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 5,546 ha in total · 13 days
  36. 9,049 ha Saw fire, 21 February 2021 where it started 5.1% of the municipality · 17,092 ha in total · 32 days
  37. 66 ha Kanpetlet fire, 20 March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 24,764 ha in total · 30 days
  38. 2,000 ha Saw fire, 11 March 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 4,190 ha in total · 19 days
  39. 303 ha Mindat fire, 9 March 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 3,022 ha in total · 20 days
  40. 2,838 ha Sidoktaya fire, 7 March 2020 1.6% of the municipality · 4,820 ha in total · 15 days
  41. 83 ha Sidoktaya fire, 5 March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 3,263 ha in total · 14 days
  42. 2,659 ha Saw fire, 3 March 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,662 ha in total · 14 days
  43. 2,313 ha Saw fire, March 2019 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 5,884 ha in total · 29 days
  44. 3,014 ha Sidoktaya fire, 9 March 2019 1.7% of the municipality · 29,536 ha in total · 45 days
  45. 2,012 ha Tilin fire, March 2018 1.1% of the municipality · 2,513 ha in total · 14 days
  46. 2,057 ha Saw fire, March 2018 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,048 ha in total · 14 days
  47. 3,042 ha Sidoktaya fire, 24 March 2017 1.7% of the municipality · 16,167 ha in total · 22 days
  48. 27 ha Sidoktaya fire, 23 March 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 2,244 ha in total · 12 days
  49. 599 ha Saw fire, April 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,105 ha in total · 8 days
  50. 258 ha Kanpetlet fire, 6 April 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 7,201 ha in total · 15 days
  51. 3,744 ha Tilin fire, March 2016 2.1% of the municipality · 4,882 ha in total · 17 days
  52. 1,039 ha Sidoktaya fire, 11 March 2016 0.6% of the municipality · 3,245 ha in total · 16 days
  53. 1,674 ha Sidoktaya fire, 9 March 2016 0.9% of the municipality · 2,754 ha in total · 15 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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