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Wildfires in Dan Chang ด่านช้าง

Dan Chang, Thailand, has had 13 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 36,086 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 29% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 63 % · 33 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 71 % · 31 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 76 % · 35 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 81 % · 26 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 70 % · 17 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 71 % · 26 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 29° · 71 % · 29 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 29° · 70 % · 22 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

36,086
hectares burned
29 %
of its area
13
fires
1,248
km²

How many times has Dan Chang burned?

Dan Chang has burned 13 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2020, 2021, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Dan Chang fire, 15 April 2026, with 1,924 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 36,086 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 28,580 hectares, 23 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11. 4× 26
13
fires
5
years with fire
36,086
cumulative ha
28,580
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 Dan Chang

  1. 1,924 ha Dan Chang fire, 15 April 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,913 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 4,261 ha Dan Chang fire, 2 April 2026 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 4,238 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 19,434 ha Dan Chang fire, 2 April 2026 where it started 16% of the municipality · 25,621 ha in total · 22 days
  4. 528 ha Si Sawat fire, 21 March 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 46,104 ha in total · 39 days
  5. 1,725 ha Dan Chang fire, March 2024 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,714 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 1,031 ha Dan Chang fire, February 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,024 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 1,218 ha Dan Chang fire, 25 February 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,211 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 1,381 ha Dan Chang fire, 24 February 2021 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,372 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 1,390 ha Dan Chang fire, February 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,782 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 1,038 ha Dan Chang fire, 26 January 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,749 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 1,466 ha Dan Chang fire, 25 January 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,652 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 43 ha Dan Chang fire, 25 January 2020 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 51,181 ha in total · 37 days
  13. 647 ha Ban Rai fire, 3 February 2016 0.5% of the municipality · 8,869 ha in total · 14 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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