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Wildfires in Shwegu

Shwegu, Myanmar, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2023: 7,309 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.4% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 13).

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 5 Moderate 29° · 55 % · 19 km/h
  2. Fri 6 Moderate 29° · 55 % · 17 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Moderate 29° · 56 % · 19 km/h
  4. Sun 8 Moderate 30° · 58 % · 18 km/h
  5. Mon 9 Very low 24° · 79 % · 22 km/h
  6. Tue 10 Very low 21° · 92 % · 20 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Very low 24° · 76 % · 21 km/h
  8. Thu 12 Very low 24° · 76 % · 28 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 Shwegu: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

7,309
hectares burned
2.4 %
of its area
3
fires
3,101
km²

How many times has Shwegu burned?

Shwegu has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Shwegu fire, April 2026, with 2,546 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
3
fires
2
years with fire
7,309
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 Shwegu

  1. 2,546 ha Shwegu fire, April 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,865 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 2,056 ha Shwegu fire, 12 April 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,045 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 2,706 ha Shwegu fire, 10 April 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,689 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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