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Wildfires in Tilin

Tilin, Myanmar, has had 38 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 90,457 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 68% 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. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 63 % · 17 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 66 % · 16 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 62 % · 17 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 29° · 70 % · 21 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 72 % · 18 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 29° · 75 % · 21 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 29° · 72 % · 17 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 29° · 68 % · 20 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

90,457
hectares burned
68 %
of its area
38
fires
1,335
km²

How many times has Tilin burned?

Tilin has burned 38 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Tilin fire, 12 March 2026, with 2,033 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 90,457 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 52,991 hectares, 40 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7.   22
  8. 5× 23
  9. 5× 24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 7× 26
38
fires
10
years with fire
90,457
cumulative ha
52,991
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 Tilin

  1. 2,033 ha Tilin fire, 12 March 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,023 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 1,790 ha Tilin fire, 6 March 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,424 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 12,349 ha Saw fire, 28 February 2026 9.2% of the municipality · 17,976 ha in total · 21 days
  4. 1,475 ha Pauk fire, 19 February 2026 1.1% of the municipality · 5,940 ha in total · 29 days
  5. 4,587 ha Tilin fire, February 2026 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 5,253 ha in total · 29 days
  6. 3,018 ha Mindat fire, February 2026 2.3% of the municipality · 8,843 ha in total · 22 days
  7. 17 ha Gangaw fire, February 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,264 ha in total · 18 days
  8. 816 ha Tilin fire, 16 March 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,130 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 9,456 ha Tilin fire, 5 March 2025 where it started 7.1% of the municipality · 9,922 ha in total · 16 days
  10. 267 ha Saw fire, 5 March 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 2,501 ha in total · 11 days
  11. 2,593 ha Tilin fire, February 2025 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 3,344 ha in total · 19 days
  12. 2,736 ha Gangaw fire, 11 March 2024 2.0% of the municipality · 4,917 ha in total · 10 days
  13. 2,377 ha Tilin fire, March 2024 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,363 ha in total · 9 days
  14. 815 ha Pauk fire, 8 March 2024 0.6% of the municipality · 2,354 ha in total · 16 days
  15. 12 ha Pauk fire, 5 March 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 3,418 ha in total · 21 days
  16. 3,885 ha Tilin fire, February 2024 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 13,183 ha in total · 24 days
  17. 1,735 ha Tilin fire, 30 March 2023 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,224 ha in total · 16 days
  18. 2,001 ha Tilin fire, 10 March 2023 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,011 ha in total · 6 days
  19. 749 ha Gangaw fire, 24 February 2023 0.6% of the municipality · 2,169 ha in total · 19 days
  20. 3,512 ha Tilin fire, February 2023 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 4,588 ha in total · 10 days
  21. 154 ha Gangaw fire, January 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 13,643 ha in total · 24 days
  22. 2,917 ha Tilin fire, 25 February 2021 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,903 ha in total · 17 days
  23. 3,434 ha Tilin fire, 25 February 2021 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 3,419 ha in total · 13 days
  24. 2,496 ha Saw fire, 23 February 2021 1.9% of the municipality · 5,546 ha in total · 13 days
  25. 1,961 ha Tilin fire, 21 February 2021 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 5,224 ha in total · 11 days
  26. 2,213 ha Saw fire, 11 March 2020 1.7% of the municipality · 4,190 ha in total · 19 days
  27. 194 ha Mindat fire, 9 March 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 3,022 ha in total · 20 days
  28. 3,941 ha Tilin fire, March 2019 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 3,923 ha in total · 14 days
  29. 2,363 ha Pauk fire, March 2019 1.8% of the municipality · 3,430 ha in total · 18 days
  30. 5,821 ha Tilin fire, February 2019 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 11,583 ha in total · 22 days
  31. 518 ha Tilin fire, March 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,513 ha in total · 14 days
  32. 6 ha Saw fire, March 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 2,048 ha in total · 14 days
  33. 2,096 ha Tilin fire, April 2017 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,087 ha in total · 12 days
  34. 726 ha Tilin fire, 18 February 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,544 ha in total · 16 days
  35. 1,751 ha Tilin fire, 18 February 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,001 ha in total · 13 days
  36. 1,169 ha Tilin fire, March 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,882 ha in total · 17 days
  37. 2,324 ha Matupi fire, February 2016 1.7% of the municipality · 3,153 ha in total · 11 days
  38. 149 ha Gangaw fire, 28 February 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 4,326 ha in total · 19 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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