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Wildfires in Ye

Ye, Myanmar, has had 17 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 38,648 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 14% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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 27 Very low 33° · 50 % · 21 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 33° · 45 % · 22 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 60 % · 23 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 63 % · 32 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 33° · 60 % · 19 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 69 % · 23 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 31° · 74 % · 23 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 32° · 68 % · 27 km/h
  9. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 64 % · 22 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

38,648
hectares burned
14 %
of its area
17
fires
2,738
km²

How many times has Ye burned?

Ye has burned 17 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Ye fire, April 2026, with 2,148 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 38,648 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 26,502 hectares, 9.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 7× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 5× 26
17
fires
6
years with fire
38,648
cumulative ha
26,502
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 Ye

  1. 2,148 ha Ye fire, April 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,137 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 3,805 ha Ye fire, 26 March 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,785 ha in total · 33 days
  3. 1,305 ha Yebyu fire, 23 March 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 2,463 ha in total · 14 days
  4. 3,244 ha Ye fire, 23 March 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,227 ha in total · 12 days
  5. 612 ha Yebyu fire, January 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 2,668 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 2,699 ha Ye fire, March 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,685 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 79 ha Yebyu fire, April 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 6,676 ha in total · 17 days
  8. 4,300 ha Ye fire, February 2023 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 4,277 ha in total · 12 days
  9. 4,623 ha Ye fire, 25 March 2020 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 5,311 ha in total · 22 days
  10. 503 ha Kyainseikgyi fire, 22 March 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 6,780 ha in total · 22 days
  11. 3,166 ha Ye fire, 22 March 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,146 ha in total · 15 days
  12. 1,493 ha Ye fire, 21 March 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,249 ha in total · 24 days
  13. 2,251 ha Ye fire, 14 March 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,238 ha in total · 27 days
  14. 2,818 ha Ye fire, 4 March 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,668 ha in total · 25 days
  15. 2,739 ha Ye fire, February 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,724 ha in total · 18 days
  16. 337 ha Yebyu fire, 29 March 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 2,466 ha in total · 14 days
  17. 2,526 ha Ye fire, May 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,512 ha in total · 11 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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