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Wildfires in Kachin State
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 08:29 UTC
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Fire history, 2012–2025
Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 34,210 km² of Kachin State at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 8,400 km², ranking 9th of 14 regions of Myanmar.
Year by year
Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.
The busiest year was 2014, with 12,550 km² detected; the quietest was 2016, with 5,890 km². The 2021–2025 average is 7.2% lower than the 2012–2016 average.
Through the year
Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.
March, April and May together hold 84% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 23 April 2014, with detections in 1,313 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 34,210 km² with at least one detection, 51% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 10,310 | 30% |
| 2 years | 6,380 | 19% |
| 3 to 5 years | 10,760 | 31% |
| 6 to 10 years | 6,000 | 18% |
| 11 years or more | 765 | 2.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 25.25, 97.25 and holds 10% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 9,330 | 11,210 |
| 2013 | 10,210 | 13,412 |
| 2014 | 12,550 | 16,644 |
| 2015 | 7,060 | 8,563 |
| 2016 | 5,890 | 6,888 |
| 2017 | 6,580 | 7,865 |
| 2018 | 7,000 | 8,911 |
| 2019 | 8,340 | 10,720 |
| 2020 | 8,840 | 11,269 |
| 2021 | 10,390 | 13,355 |
| 2022 | 6,660 | 7,735 |
| 2023 | 11,620 | 15,477 |
| 2024 | 6,320 | 7,172 |
| 2025 | 6,810 | 7,769 |
Other regions of Myanmar
- Shan State63,710 km² in an average year
- Sagaing22,900 km² in an average year
- Magway17,730 km² in an average year
- Chin State14,450 km² in an average year
- Bago12,170 km² in an average year
- Mandalay9,840 km² in an average year
- How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.
Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.
Nearby regions
- Sagaing269 km
- Arunachal Pradesh, India295 km
- Mandalay295 km
- Nagaland, India306 km
- Manipur, India370 km
- Assam, India402 km