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Wildfires in Chun จุน

Chun, Thailand, has had 23 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 21,495 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 40% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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 24 Low 32° · 55 % · 14 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 32° · 60 % · 23 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 28° · 76 % · 24 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 69 % · 30 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 62 % · 24 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 56 % · 17 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 60 % · 24 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 65 % · 25 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

21,495
hectares burned
40 %
of its area
23
fires
534
km²

How many times has Chun burned?

Chun has burned 23 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Chun fire, April 2026, with 1,808 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 21,495 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 14,404 hectares, 27 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 5× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 3× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 10× 26
23
fires
7
years with fire
21,495
cumulative ha
14,404
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 Chun

  1. 1,808 ha Chun fire, April 2026 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 3,583 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 1,419 ha Chun fire, 27 March 2026 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 1,746 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 920 ha Dok Khamtai fire, 24 March 2026 1.7% of the municipality · 1,332 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 121 ha Chiang Kham fire, 20 March 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 2,573 ha in total · 17 days
  5. 3,572 ha Dok Khamtai fire, 20 March 2026 6.7% of the municipality · 6,073 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 256 ha Pong fire, 20 March 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 3,657 ha in total · 16 days
  7. 1,068 ha Chun fire, 2 March 2026 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 1,635 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 2,178 ha Chun fire, 28 February 2026 where it started 4.1% of the municipality · 2,337 ha in total · 9 days
  9. 848 ha Chun fire, 28 February 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,607 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 932 ha Chun fire, 27 February 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,365 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 67 ha Chiang Kham fire, 23 March 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 1,682 ha in total · 10 days
  12. 214 ha Pa Daet fire, February 2023 0.4% of the municipality · 1,009 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 1,404 ha Chun fire, February 2023 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 1,869 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 514 ha Chun fire, March 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,030 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 533 ha Dok Khamtai fire, January 2020 1.0% of the municipality · 1,373 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 154 ha Chun fire, December 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,197 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 764 ha Thoeng fire, 19 April 2019 1.4% of the municipality · 2,253 ha in total · 6 days
  18. 15 ha Dok Khamtai fire, 6 March 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,513 ha in total · 11 days
  19. 1,134 ha Dok Khamtai fire, February 2019 2.1% of the municipality · 2,581 ha in total · 11 days
  20. 939 ha Chun fire, February 2019 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,042 ha in total · 6 days
  21. 1,226 ha Pa Daet fire, March 2017 2.3% of the municipality · 3,184 ha in total · 12 days
  22. 621 ha Dok Khamtai fire, March 2017 1.2% of the municipality · 1,107 ha in total · 4 days
  23. 789 ha Chun fire, March 2016 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,261 ha in total · 4 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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