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Wildfires in Shan

Shan, Myanmar: 826 fires with a page have entered 47 of its 55 municipalities since 2016, burning 3,612,741 hectares inside the region. The largest was Langkho in 16 March 2026, with 114,068 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
3,612,741ha
Since 2016
Of the region
23%
156,500 km²
fires
826
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
47
of 55
Largest fire
114,068ha
Langkho · 16 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. Thu 5 Very low 25° · 62 % · 18 km/h
  2. Fri 6 Very low 25° · 75 % · 19 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Very low 21° · 85 % · 19 km/h
  4. Sun 8 Very low 23° · 66 % · 25 km/h
  5. Mon 9 Very low 22° · 73 % · 41 km/h
  6. Tue 10 Very low 17° · 90 % · 27 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Very low 16° · 96 % · 16 km/h
  8. Thu 12 Very low 20° · 78 % · 34 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. Mongping 491,340 ha · 81 %
  2. Langkho 469,455 ha · 90 %
  3. Mongton 371,875 ha · 72 %
  4. Lawksawk 232,019 ha · 45 %
  5. Monghsat 220,039 ha · 47 %
  6. Hsipaw 189,532 ha · 36 %
  7. Mongpan 139,745 ha · 51 %
  8. Hopong 111,343 ha · 38 %
  9. Lashio 110,060 ha · 29 %
  10. Taunggyi 108,872 ha · 54 %
  11. Pinlaung 93,829 ha · 28 %
  12. Mawkmai 91,935 ha · 37 %

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
20261881,167,202 Langkho 114,068 ha
202551218,083 Lawksawk 38,570 ha
202480346,963 Lawksawk 37,054 ha
202393364,653 Mongping 27,872 ha
20222796,019 Lashio 11,718 ha
202184326,860 Mongping 19,763 ha
202089351,196 Mongping 22,117 ha
201979291,755 Mongping 22,915 ha
20181766,158 Lashio 22,116 ha
201762207,911 Mawkmai 15,415 ha
201656175,941 Namtu 7,391 ha

All fires in Shan · 826

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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