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Wildfires in Thailand

4,526 fires over 1,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 12,800,634 hectares burned across 307 districts.

Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the entry totals, but they are in the GWIS yearly series.

The season, week by week

Copernicus GWIS

Thailand, at this point in the year: 2,671,187 hectares, 1.2 times the 2012–2025 average.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–20252,302,347 ha

Worst year2020 3,939,322 ha

With a page here4,526 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	6,901	2,671,187	GWIS
2025	4,998	1,546,618	GWIS
2024	6,505	1,986,465	GWIS
2023	9,775	2,878,144	GWIS
2022	2,264	467,994	GWIS
2021	6,055	1,654,412	GWIS
2020	13,841	3,939,322	GWIS
2019	14,508	3,936,349	GWIS
2018	3,810	1,030,368	GWIS
2017	7,400	1,867,002	GWIS
2016	13,504	3,716,793	GWIS
2015	10,186	2,553,963	GWIS
2014	10,527	2,791,584	GWIS
2013	10,088	2,624,039	GWIS
2012	8,742	2,433,230	GWIS

National estimates from Copernicus GWIS, rebuilt from heat detections since 2012.

Hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS by the fire’s starting month, and the largest fire of each year.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Aug	Nov	Dec	Σ	Largest of the year
2026	57k	227k	2,945k	984k	13k				4,225,510	Mae Sariang 156,979 ha
2025	20k	40k	464k	12k				5k	541,324	Mae Sariang 48,494 ha
2024		220k	434k	152k	12k			1k	818,700	Mae Sariang 44,037 ha
2023	19k	242k	808k	187k	4k	1k			1,261,354	Mae Suai 23,457 ha
2022	8k	26k	60k	14k				1k	108,564	Mueang Mae Hong Son 18,436 ha
2021	29k	341k	225k	6k				3k	604,187	Umphang 26,711 ha
2020	205k	400k	1,037k	116k				2k	1,760,477	Ban Rai 65,377 ha
2019	21k	347k	648k	238k	12k	4k	3k	19k	1,291,970	Mae Sariang 107,025 ha
2018	4k		215k	146k				20k	385,009	Tha Song Yang 31,649 ha
2017	3k	65k	367k	66k				16k	517,916	Mae Sariang 25,654 ha
2016	23k	242k	588k	414k	16k			3k	1,285,623	Ban Rai 82,117 ha