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Wildfires in Wetlet

Wetlet, Myanmar, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2026: 12,784 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.7% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).

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. Sat 7 Moderate 32° · 52 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sun 8 Moderate 31° · 63 % · 22 km/h
  3. Mon 9 Very low 25° · 86 % · 21 km/h
  4. Tue 10 Very low 24° · 89 % · 26 km/h
  5. Wed 11 Very low 25° · 73 % · 23 km/h
  6. Thu 12 Very low 24° · 78 % · 29 km/h
  7. Fri 13 Very low 27° · 63 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sat 14 Very low 27° · 65 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Wetlet: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

12,784
hectares burned
9.7 %
of its area
2
fires
1,323
km²

How many times has Wetlet burned?

Wetlet has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2026. The most recent: Wetlet fire, 15 January 2026, with 1,412 hectares inside the municipality.

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  11. 2× 26
2
fires
1
years with fire
12,784
cumulative ha
15 Jan 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 Wetlet

  1. 1,412 ha Wetlet fire, 15 January 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,912 ha in total · 18 days
  2. 11,372 ha Wetlet fire, 6 January 2026 where it started 8.6% of the municipality · 10,717 ha in total · 27 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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