Skip to content
worldfires
en
MM · Myanmar

Wildfires in Chin

Chin, Myanmar: 282 fires with a page have entered 9 of its 9 municipalities since 2016, burning 1,588,103 hectares inside the region. The largest was Paletwa in 6 April 2023, with 146,768 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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
1,588,103ha
Since 2016
Of the region
44%
36,143 km²
fires
282
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
9
of 9
Largest fire
146,768ha
Paletwa · 6 April 2023
Inhabitants
—

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 13 Very low 22° · 47 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Low 21° · 59 % · 40 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Low 21° · 47 % · 40 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Moderate 22° · 30 % · 38 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Moderate 22° · 22 % · 35 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Very low 18° · 62 % · 21 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Very low 19° · 91 % · 32 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Very low 20° · 81 % · 31 km/h
  9. Sat 21 Very low 20° · 80 % · 30 km/h

Put this widget on your website

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

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

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Paletwa 803,170 ha · 99 %
  2. Kanpetlet 321,531 ha · 1.3×
  3. Hakha 215,001 ha · 50 %
  4. Matupi 106,392 ha · 18 %
  5. Mindat 57,487 ha · 18 %
  6. Falam 43,429 ha · 16 %
  7. Thantlang 17,488 ha · 5.0 %
  8. Tonzang 17,112 ha · 4.9 %
  9. Tedim 6,493 ha · 2.7 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (2,000 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
202641295,898 Paletwa 96,100 ha
20252494,427 Kanpetlet 18,526 ha
20242393,478 Kanpetlet 16,764 ha
202348442,202 Paletwa 146,768 ha
20221953,560 Paletwa 9,883 ha
202134179,942 Paletwa 54,114 ha
202022166,796 Paletwa 43,753 ha
201924110,795 Sidoktaya 21,974 ha
20181025,143 Hakha 4,608 ha
20171451,875 Sidoktaya 7,622 ha
20162373,985 Paletwa 8,236 ha

All fires in Chin · 282

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).

Tell me what burns here

New fires in this area by RSS: paste the link into your reader, no email needed.

Follow by RSS