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Wildfires in Saigang

Saigang, Myanmar: 100 fires with a page have entered 24 of its 37 municipalities since 2016, burning 339,980 hectares inside the region. The largest was Mingin in 30 March 2026, with 12,786 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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
339,980ha
Since 2016
Of the region
3.6%
93,840 km²
fires
100
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
24
of 37
Largest fire
12,786ha
Mingin · 30 March 2026
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 3 Low 31° · 56 % · 21 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Low 30° · 56 % · 13 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Low 31° · 50 % · 14 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Low 30° · 52 % · 14 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 30° · 55 % · 12 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Low 30° · 52 % · 23 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Low 28° · 61 % · 23 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 22° · 81 % · 21 km/h

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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. Mingin 66,935 ha · 17 %
  2. Kalewa 40,407 ha · 17 %
  3. Kanbalu 38,227 ha · 9.4 %
  4. Ye-U 28,459 ha · 20 %
  5. Homalin 21,473 ha · 2.0 %
  6. Kale 16,170 ha · 6.9 %
  7. Paungbyin 15,188 ha · 3.6 %
  8. Kyunhla 14,193 ha · 5.1 %
  9. Wetlet 12,784 ha · 9.7 %
  10. Pale 11,818 ha · 7.4 %
  11. Kani 11,806 ha · 3.5 %
  12. Katha 9,594 ha · 4.2 %

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
202626102,217 Mingin 12,786 ha
2025622,497 Mingin 5,010 ha
2024718,951 Kanbalu 4,708 ha
20232379,145 Homalin 7,528 ha
202226,708 Kalewa 3,798 ha
2021724,047 Kalewa 6,664 ha
20201135,729 Kyunhla 5,678 ha
2019615,649 Ye-U 3,459 ha
201812,611 Kanbalu 2,611 ha
2017825,185 Ye-U 4,112 ha
201637,240 Mingin 2,660 ha

All fires in Saigang · 100

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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