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Wildfires in Bago

Bago, Myanmar: 91 fires with a page have entered 21 of its 28 municipalities since 2016, burning 309,098 hectares inside the region. The largest was Paungde in February 2026, with 27,086 hectares inside the region. 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.

hectares burned
309,098ha
Since 2016
Of the region
7.9%
39,048 km²
fires
91
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
21
of 28
Largest fire
27,086ha
Paungde · February 2026
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 55 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 31° · 61 % · 19 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 70 % · 22 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 70 % · 20 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 71 % · 17 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 65 % · 22 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 30° · 71 % · 19 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 30° · 74 % · 23 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Paukkhaung 74,164 ha · 39 %
  2. Padaung 47,577 ha · 19 %
  3. Yedashe 40,560 ha · 15 %
  4. Taungoo 39,670 ha · 23 %
  5. Nattalin 25,943 ha · 19 %
  6. Paungde 19,556 ha · 21 %
  7. Letpadan 12,906 ha · 8.7 %
  8. Oktwin 12,419 ha · 8.6 %
  9. Kyaukkyi 11,377 ha · 5.6 %
  10. Phyu 7,846 ha · 3.4 %
  11. Kyauktaga 3,484 ha · 1.2 %
  12. Shwegyin 3,410 ha · 1.4 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
202641170,747 Paungde 27,086 ha
2025715,164 Paukkhaung 3,406 ha
2024721,659 Taungoo 7,972 ha
2023511,235 Oktwin 3,203 ha
202212,193 Paukkhaung 2,193 ha
2021410,816 Yedashe 5,606 ha
2020827,124 Taungoo 8,894 ha
2019513,377 Kyaukkyi 3,115 ha
201825,542 Paukkhaung 3,439 ha
201738,992 Yedashe 3,573 ha
2016822,249 Yedashe 5,272 ha

All fires in Bago · 91

Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Myanmar Analytics Project, geoBoundaries (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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