Wildfires in Kachin
Kachin, Myanmar: 31 fires with a page have entered 12 of its 18 municipalities since 2016, burning 98,274 hectares inside the region. The largest was Mogaung in April 2021, with 9,112 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).
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
- 98,274ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.1%
- 89,352 km²
- fires
- 31
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 12
- of 18
- Largest fire
- 9,112ha
- Mogaung · April 2021
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sat 14 Very low 22° · 59 % · 16 km/h
- Sun 15 Very low 21° · 62 % · 16 km/h
- Mon 16 Very low 21° · 67 % · 17 km/h
- Tue 17 Very low 22° · 65 % · 16 km/h
- Wed 18 Very low 24° · 59 % · 15 km/h
- Thu 19 Low 23° · 49 % · 15 km/h
- Fri 20 Low 24° · 59 % · 16 km/h
- Sat 21 Low 24° · 60 % · 17 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Hpakant 25,235 ha · 4.4 %
- Waingmaw 13,929 ha · 2.8 %
- Myitkyina 13,234 ha · 2.1 %
- Mogaung 11,088 ha · 3.3 %
- Chipwi 9,677 ha · 2.8 %
- Mohnyin 9,050 ha · 1.4 %
- Shwegu 7,309 ha · 2.4 %
- Tsawlaw 2,470 ha · 0.7 %
- Bhamo 2,424 ha · 1.1 %
- Tanai 1,848 ha · 0.1 %
- Injangyang 1,581 ha · 0.3 %
- Sumprabum 429 ha · 0.1 %
Largest recorded fires
- 9,112 haMogaungApril 2021 · 12 days
- 5,774 haHpakant6 April 2023 · 16 days
- 5,752 haMogaungApril 2023 · 15 days
- 4,517 haChipwiFebruary 2026 · 9 days
- 4,313 haHpakant8 April 2017 · 8 days
- 4,302 haHpakantApril 2025 · 9 days
- 4,290 haMyitkyinaMarch 2020 · 24 days
- 3,966 haWaingmawApril 2022 · 7 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 4 | 11,748 | Chipwi 4,517 ha |
| 2025 | 2 | 7,457 | Hpakant 4,302 ha |
| 2023 | 9 | 30,441 | Hpakant 5,774 ha |
| 2022 | 1 | 3,966 | Waingmaw 3,966 ha |
| 2021 | 3 | 13,755 | Mogaung 9,112 ha |
| 2020 | 2 | 6,395 | Myitkyina 4,290 ha |
| 2019 | 1 | 2,105 | Myitkyina 2,105 ha |
| 2018 | 1 | 2,083 | Myitkyina 2,083 ha |
| 2017 | 5 | 12,839 | Hpakant 4,313 ha |
| 2016 | 3 | 7,484 | Hpakant 3,147 ha |
All fires in Kachin · 31
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 2,011 haInjangyangApril 2026 · 2 days
- 2,873 haShweguApril 2026 · 10 days
- 2,347 haTsawlawFebruary 2026 · 8 days
- 4,517 haChipwiFebruary 2026 · 9 days
- 4,302 haHpakantApril 2025 · 9 days
- 3,155 haTanaiMarch 2025 · 11 days
- 2,056 haShwegu12 April 2023 · 10 days
- 2,706 haShwegu10 April 2023 · 12 days
- 2,309 haHomalin8 April 2023 · 15 days
- 5,752 haMogaungApril 2023 · 15 days
- 2,209 haMyitkyina7 April 2023 · 8 days
- 3,574 haMyitkyina6 April 2023 · 15 days
- 5,774 haHpakant6 April 2023 · 16 days
- 3,828 haMohnyinApril 2023 · 18 days
- 2,234 haHpakant4 April 2023 · 12 days
- 3,966 haWaingmawApril 2022 · 7 days
- 2,372 haWaingmaw22 April 2021 · 8 days
- 9,112 haMogaungApril 2021 · 12 days
- 2,271 haWaingmaw12 April 2021 · 4 days
- 2,106 haChipwiMarch 2020 · 5 days
- 4,290 haMyitkyinaMarch 2020 · 24 days
- 2,105 haMyitkyinaJanuary 2019 · 32 days
- 2,083 haMyitkyinaMarch 2018 · 17 days
- 2,053 haWaingmawMay 2017 · 8 days
- 3,297 haHpakant10 April 2017 · 6 days
- 4,313 haHpakant8 April 2017 · 8 days
- 1,129 haChipwiFebruary 2017 · 11 days
- 2,048 haChipwiJanuary 2017 · 20 days
- 2,240 haWaingmawMay 2016 · 6 days
- 3,147 haHpakantApril 2016 · 7 days
- 2,097 haBhamoApril 2016 · 7 days
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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