Fires in organic soils — Burned Area in Myanmar
Myanmar: Fires in organic soils — Burned Area was 5,858 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Latest (2024)
5,858 ha
Change on year
up 15.6%
World rank
3rd
of 218 countries
All-time high
8,088 ha
in 2020
All-time low
1,602 ha
in 1997
Years of data
35
1990–2024
Fires in organic soils — Burned Area in Myanmar, 1990–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Myanmar recorded 5,858 ha for fires in organic soils — burned area in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 15.6% on the previous year and up 18.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, fires in organic soils — burned area in Myanmar peaked at 8,088 ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 1,602 ha, in 1997.
That places Myanmar 3rd out of 218 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 35 years of available data.
Fires in organic soils — Burned Area in Myanmar, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 4,475 ha | — |
| 1991 | 4,475 ha | +0.0% |
| 1992 | 4,475 ha | +0.0% |
| 1993 | 4,475 ha | +0.0% |
| 1994 | 4,475 ha | +0.0% |
| 1995 | 4,475 ha | +0.0% |
| 1996 | 2,187 ha | -51.1% |
| 1997 | 1,602 ha | -26.7% |
| 1998 | 2,730 ha | +70.5% |
| 1999 | 2,766 ha | +1.3% |
| 2000 | 2,777 ha | +0.4% |
| 2001 | 3,276 ha | +18.0% |
| 2002 | 2,264 ha | -30.9% |
| 2003 | 4,114 ha | +81.8% |
| 2004 | 7,655 ha | +86.1% |
| 2005 | 3,027 ha | -60.5% |
| 2006 | 6,136 ha | +102.7% |
| 2007 | 5,441 ha | -11.3% |
| 2008 | 2,540 ha | -53.3% |
| 2009 | 5,129 ha | +101.9% |
| 2010 | 7,555 ha | +47.3% |
| 2011 | 2,664 ha | -64.7% |
| 2012 | 3,278 ha | +23.1% |
| 2013 | 5,529 ha | +68.7% |
| 2014 | 4,951 ha | -10.4% |
| 2015 | 7,784 ha | +57.2% |
| 2016 | 6,070 ha | -22.0% |
| 2017 | 2,893 ha | -52.3% |
| 2018 | 7,182 ha | +148.3% |
| 2019 | 4,063 ha | -43.4% |
| 2020 | 8,088 ha | +99.1% |
| 2021 | 3,620 ha | -55.2% |
| 2022 | 3,520 ha | -2.8% |
| 2023 | 5,069 ha | +44.0% |
| 2024 | 5,858 ha | +15.6% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 3,613 ha | 1,602 ha | 4,475 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 4,236 ha | 2,264 ha | 7,655 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 5,197 ha | 2,664 ha | 7,784 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 5,231 ha | 3,520 ha | 8,088 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Myanmar
- 1 Indonesia 28,346 ha compare
- 2 Malaysia 8,403 ha compare
- 4 Thailand 51.3 ha compare
- 5 Afghanistan 0 ha
- 5 Albania 0 ha
- 5 Algeria 0 ha
- 5 American Samoa 0 ha
- 5 Andorra 0 ha
- 5 Angola 0 ha
- 5 Anguilla 0 ha
- 5 Antigua and Barbuda 0 ha
- 5 Argentina 0 ha
- 5 Armenia 0 ha
- 5 Aruba 0 ha
- 5 Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha 0 ha
- 5 Australia 0 ha
- 5 Austria 0 ha
- 5 Azerbaijan 0 ha
- 5 Bahamas 0 ha
- 5 Bahrain 0 ha
- 5 Bangladesh 0 ha
- 5 Barbados 0 ha
- 5 Belarus 0 ha
- 5 Belgium 0 ha
- 5 Belgium-Luxembourg 0 ha
- 5 Belize 0 ha
- 5 Benin 0 ha
- 5 Bermuda 0 ha
- 5 Bhutan 0 ha
- 5 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 ha
- 5 Botswana 0 ha
- 5 Brazil 0 ha
- 5 British Virgin Islands 0 ha
- 5 Brunei Darussalam 0 ha compare
- 5 Bulgaria 0 ha
- 5 Burkina Faso 0 ha
- 5 Burundi 0 ha
- 5 Cambodia 0 ha
- 5 Cameroon 0 ha
- 5 Canada 0 ha
- 5 Cayman Islands 0 ha
- 5 Central African Republic 0 ha
- 5 Chad 0 ha
- 5 Chile 0 ha
- 5 China 0 ha
- 5 China, Hong Kong SAR 0 ha
- 5 China, Macao SAR 0 ha
- 5 China, mainland 0 ha
- 5 China, Taiwan Province of 0 ha
- 5 Colombia 0 ha
- 5 Comoros 0 ha
- 5 Congo 0 ha
- 5 Cook Islands 0 ha
- 5 Costa Rica 0 ha
- 5 Croatia 0 ha
- 5 Cuba 0 ha
- 5 Cyprus 0 ha
- 5 Czechia 0 ha
- 5 Denmark 0 ha
- 5 Djibouti 0 ha
- 5 Dominica 0 ha
- 5 Dominican Republic 0 ha
- 5 Ecuador 0 ha
- 5 Egypt 0 ha
- 5 El Salvador 0 ha
- 5 Equatorial Guinea 0 ha
- 5 Eritrea 0 ha
- 5 Estonia 0 ha
- 5 Eswatini 0 ha
- 5 Ethiopia 0 ha
- 5 Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 0 ha
- 5 Faroe Islands 0 ha
- 5 Fiji 0 ha
- 5 Finland 0 ha
- 5 France 0 ha
- 5 French Guiana 0 ha
- 5 French Polynesia 0 ha
- 5 Gabon 0 ha
- 5 Gambia 0 ha
- 5 Georgia 0 ha
- 5 Germany 0 ha
- 5 Ghana 0 ha
- 5 Gibraltar 0 ha
- 5 Greece 0 ha
- 5 Greenland 0 ha
- 5 Grenada 0 ha
- 5 Guadeloupe 0 ha
- 5 Guam 0 ha
- 5 Guatemala 0 ha
- 5 Guinea 0 ha
- 5 Guinea-Bissau 0 ha
- 5 Guyana 0 ha
- 5 Haiti 0 ha
- 5 Honduras 0 ha
- 5 Hungary 0 ha
- 5 Iceland 0 ha
- 5 India 0 ha
- 5 Iraq 0 ha
- 5 Ireland 0 ha
- 5 Isle of Man 0 ha
- 5 Israel 0 ha
- 5 Italy 0 ha
- 5 Jamaica 0 ha
- 5 Japan 0 ha
- 5 Jordan 0 ha
- 5 Kazakhstan 0 ha
- 5 Kenya 0 ha
- 5 Kiribati 0 ha
- 5 Kuwait 0 ha
- 5 Kyrgyzstan 0 ha
- 5 Latvia 0 ha
- 5 Lebanon 0 ha
- 5 Lesotho 0 ha
- 5 Liberia 0 ha
- 5 Libya 0 ha
- 5 Lithuania 0 ha
- 5 Luxembourg 0 ha
- 5 Madagascar 0 ha
- 5 Malawi 0 ha
- 5 Maldives 0 ha
- 5 Mali 0 ha
- 5 Malta 0 ha
- 5 Marshall Islands 0 ha
- 5 Martinique 0 ha
- 5 Mauritania 0 ha
- 5 Mauritius 0 ha
- 5 Mayotte 0 ha
- 5 Mexico 0 ha
- 5 Mongolia 0 ha
- 5 Montenegro 0 ha
- 5 Montserrat 0 ha
- 5 Morocco 0 ha
- 5 Mozambique 0 ha
- 5 Namibia 0 ha
- 5 Naoero 0 ha
- 5 Nepal 0 ha
- 5 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 0 ha
- 5 Netherlands Antilles (former) 0 ha
- 5 New Caledonia 0 ha
- 5 New Zealand 0 ha
- 5 Nicaragua 0 ha
- 5 Niger 0 ha
- 5 Nigeria 0 ha
- 5 Niue 0 ha
- 5 Norfolk Island 0 ha
- 5 North Macedonia 0 ha
- 5 Northern Mariana Islands 0 ha
- 5 Norway 0 ha
- 5 Oman 0 ha
- 5 Pakistan 0 ha
- 5 Palau 0 ha
- 5 Palestine, State of 0 ha
- 5 Panama 0 ha
- 5 Papua New Guinea 0 ha
- 5 Paraguay 0 ha
- 5 Peru 0 ha
- 5 Philippines 0 ha
- 5 Pitcairn 0 ha
- 5 Poland 0 ha
- 5 Portugal 0 ha
- 5 Puerto Rico 0 ha
- 5 Qatar 0 ha
- 5 Republic of Korea 0 ha
- 5 Réunion 0 ha
- 5 Romania 0 ha
- 5 Russian Federation 0 ha
- 5 Rwanda 0 ha
- 5 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0 ha
- 5 Saint Lucia 0 ha
- 5 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0 ha
- 5 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0 ha
- 5 Samoa 0 ha
- 5 Sao Tome and Principe 0 ha
- 5 Saudi Arabia 0 ha
- 5 Senegal 0 ha
- 5 Serbia 0 ha
- 5 Serbia and Montenegro 0 ha
- 5 Seychelles 0 ha
- 5 Sierra Leone 0 ha
- 5 Singapore 0 ha
- 5 Slovakia 0 ha
- 5 Slovenia 0 ha
- 5 Solomon Islands 0 ha
- 5 Somalia 0 ha
- 5 South Africa 0 ha
- 5 South Sudan 0 ha
- 5 Spain 0 ha
- 5 Sri Lanka 0 ha
- 5 Sudan 0 ha
- 5 Sudan (former) 0 ha
- 5 Suriname 0 ha
- 5 Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands 0 ha
- 5 Sweden 0 ha
- 5 Switzerland 0 ha
- 5 Tajikistan 0 ha
- 5 Togo 0 ha
- 5 Tokelau 0 ha
- 5 Tonga 0 ha
- 5 Trinidad and Tobago 0 ha
- 5 Tunisia 0 ha
- 5 Turkmenistan 0 ha
- 5 Turks and Caicos Islands 0 ha
- 5 Tuvalu 0 ha
- 5 Uganda 0 ha
- 5 Ukraine 0 ha
- 5 United Arab Emirates 0 ha
- 5 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 0 ha
- 5 United States Virgin Islands 0 ha
- 5 Uruguay 0 ha
- 5 Uzbekistan 0 ha
- 5 Vanuatu 0 ha
- 5 Western Sahara 0 ha
- 5 Yemen 0 ha
- 5 Zambia 0 ha
- 5 Zimbabwe 0 ha
- 5 Australia and New Zealand 0 ha
- 5 OECD 0 ha
More climate change data for Myanmar
- Emissions from livestock — Emissions (CO2eq) 59,991 kt (2050)
- Emissions from livestock — Emissions (CO2eq) from N2O 14,800 kt (2050)
- Emissions from livestock — Emissions (CO2eq) from CH4 45,192 kt (2050)
- Emissions from livestock — Emissions 55.85 kt (2050)
- Emissions from livestock — Emissions 1,614 kt (2050)
- Emissions from crops — Emissions (CO2eq) 48,794 kt (2050)
- Emissions from crops — Emissions (CO2eq) from N2O 4,645 kt (2050)
- Emissions from crops — Emissions (CO2eq) from CH4 44,150 kt (2050)
- Emissions from crops — Emissions 17.53 kt (2050)
- Emissions from crops — Emissions 1,577 kt (2050)
Frequently asked questions
- What is fires in organic soils — burned area in Myanmar?
- Fires in organic soils — burned area in Myanmar was 5,858 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest fires in organic soils — burned area recorded in Myanmar?
- The highest recorded value was 8,088 ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest fires in organic soils — burned area recorded in Myanmar?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,602 ha in 1997.
- How does Myanmar rank for fires in organic soils — burned area?
- Myanmar ranks 3rd out of 218 countries with data for 2024.
- Is fires in organic soils — burned area rising or falling in Myanmar?
- Over the last ten years it is up 18.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Myanmar data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Fires in organic soils — Burned Area. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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The FAOSTAT domain on Emissions from Fires consists of estimates of methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O) and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions generated from biomass burning in a range of vegetation types and from fires in organic soils.