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Wildfires in Sinbaungwe

Sinbaungwe, Myanmar, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 18,106 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.8% 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. Tue 3 Very low 33° · 52 % · 17 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 59 % · 21 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very low 31° · 64 % · 18 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 31° · 67 % · 17 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 31° · 69 % · 16 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 30° · 68 % · 25 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 28° · 78 % · 33 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 24° · 85 % · 29 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

18,106
hectares burned
8.8 %
of its area
12
fires
2,065
km²

How many times has Sinbaungwe burned?

Sinbaungwe has burned 12 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Aunglan fire, 2 March 2026, with 1,683 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 18,106 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 14,411 hectares, 7.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 4× 26
12
fires
9
years with fire
18,106
cumulative ha
14,411
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 Sinbaungwe

  1. 1,683 ha Aunglan fire, 2 March 2026 0.8% of the municipality · 10,700 ha in total · 33 days
  2. 791 ha Aunglan fire, 12 February 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 2,021 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 3,680 ha Sinbaungwe fire, February 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 16,664 ha in total · 16 days
  4. 196 ha Aunglan fire, 3 February 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 9,093 ha in total · 20 days
  5. 48 ha Thayet fire, February 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 2,379 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 488 ha Aunglan fire, 8 March 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 2,532 ha in total · 16 days
  7. 530 ha Aunglan fire, March 2023 0.3% of the municipality · 2,390 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 3,568 ha Sinbaungwe fire, March 2022 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 3,955 ha in total · 16 days
  9. 1 ha Aunglan fire, 3 March 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,070 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 2,749 ha Sinbaungwe fire, January 2020 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,734 ha in total · 14 days
  11. 2,083 ha Sinbaungwe fire, February 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,072 ha in total · 12 days
  12. 2,289 ha Sinbaungwe fire, February 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,586 ha in total · 9 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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