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Wildfires in Thayet

Thayet, Myanmar, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 21,224 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 18% 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. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 57 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 33° · 57 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 33° · 60 % · 27 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 33° · 61 % · 19 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 33° · 66 % · 26 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 57 % · 17 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 33° · 60 % · 16 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 33° · 59 % · 21 km/h
  9. Sat 7 Very low 31° · 70 % · 21 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

21,224
hectares burned
18 %
of its area
6
fires
1,208
km²

How many times has Thayet burned?

Thayet has burned 6 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2019, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Thayet fire, 25 February 2026, with 2,162 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 21,224 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 18,366 hectares, 15 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 3× 26
6
fires
4
years with fire
21,224
cumulative ha
18,366
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 Thayet

  1. 2,162 ha Thayet fire, 25 February 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,153 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 2,273 ha Thayet fire, 6 February 2026 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,262 ha in total · 17 days
  3. 11,344 ha Sinbaungwe fire, January 2026 9.4% of the municipality · 16,664 ha in total · 25 days
  4. 2,346 ha Thayet fire, February 2025 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,379 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 1,956 ha Thayet fire, March 2019 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,040 ha in total · 15 days
  6. 1,142 ha Mindon fire, 24 March 2017 1.0% of the municipality · 2,948 ha in total · 2 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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