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Wildfires in Bo Phloi บ่อพลอย

Bo Phloi, Thailand, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 18,145 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 15% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 14 Very low 30° · 60 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Very low 31° · 59 % · 17 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very low 32° · 62 % · 15 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 30° · 73 % · 18 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 31° · 68 % · 22 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low 30° · 70 % · 35 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 30° · 63 % · 32 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Low 28° · 65 % · 37 km/h
  9. Sun 22 Low 29° · 63 % · 31 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Bo Phloi: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

18,145
hectares burned
15 %
of its area
7
fires
1,209
km²

How many times has Bo Phloi burned?

Bo Phloi has burned 7 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Si Sawat fire, 27 March 2026, with 12,477 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 18,145 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 13,069 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 3× 24
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  11. 1× 26
7
fires
4
years with fire
18,145
cumulative ha
13,069
distinct ha

Fires larger than 1,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Thailand

Fires that entered Bo Phloi

  1. 12,477 ha Si Sawat fire, 27 March 2026 10% of the municipality · 28,934 ha in total · 28 days
  2. 1,846 ha Bo Phloi fire, 3 February 2024 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,834 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 466 ha Bo Phloi fire, 3 February 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,678 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 1,587 ha Bo Phloi fire, 3 February 2024 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,577 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 952 ha Bo Phloi fire, April 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,063 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 727 ha Si Sawat fire, 4 March 2023 0.6% of the municipality · 2,244 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 90 ha Mueang Kanchanaburi fire, February 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 4,890 ha in total · 10 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Royal Thai Survey Department, OCHA ROAP (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). 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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