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Wildfires in Den Chai เด่นชัย

Den Chai, Thailand, has had 20 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 26,742 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 49% 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 11 Very low 23° · 71 % · 23 km/h
  2. Thu 12 Very low 25° · 73 % · 24 km/h
  3. Fri 13 Very low 28° · 64 % · 21 km/h
  4. Sat 14 Very low 30° · 59 % · 18 km/h
  5. Sun 15 Very low 30° · 61 % · 17 km/h
  6. Mon 16 Very low 30° · 58 % · 18 km/h
  7. Tue 17 Very low 31° · 67 % · 16 km/h
  8. Wed 18 Very low 28° · 86 % · 27 km/h
  9. Thu 19 Very low 30° · 67 % · 17 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 Den Chai: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

26,742
hectares burned
49 %
of its area
20
fires
546
km²

How many times has Den Chai burned?

Den Chai has burned 20 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Den Chai fire, April 2026, with 1,055 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 26,742 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 15,840 hectares, 29 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 6× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 3× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 4× 26
20
fires
5
years with fire
26,742
cumulative ha
15,840
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 Den Chai

  1. 1,055 ha Den Chai fire, April 2026 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 1,056 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 918 ha Wang Chin fire, 6 April 2026 1.7% of the municipality · 1,235 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 2,277 ha Den Chai fire, March 2026 where it started 4.2% of the municipality · 2,682 ha in total · 19 days
  4. 165 ha Long fire, 28 February 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 1,715 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 34 ha Sung Men fire, March 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 2,524 ha in total · 23 days
  6. 2,142 ha Den Chai fire, 20 March 2023 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 2,130 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 2,494 ha Den Chai fire, 19 March 2023 where it started 4.6% of the municipality · 3,494 ha in total · 27 days
  8. 1,185 ha Den Chai fire, April 2020 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,179 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 2,237 ha Den Chai fire, 25 March 2020 where it started 4.1% of the municipality · 2,225 ha in total · 11 days
  10. 1,213 ha Den Chai fire, 8 March 2020 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,206 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 5 ha Mueang Uttaradit fire, March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,230 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 2,778 ha Den Chai fire, 20 April 2019 where it started 5.1% of the municipality · 2,717 ha in total · 15 days
  13. 1,038 ha Den Chai fire, 20 April 2019 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 1,032 ha in total · 8 days
  14. 691 ha Sung Men fire, April 2019 1.3% of the municipality · 2,462 ha in total · 12 days
  15. 397 ha Mueang Uttaradit fire, April 2019 0.7% of the municipality · 1,311 ha in total · 12 days
  16. 2,104 ha Den Chai fire, March 2019 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 4,107 ha in total · 19 days
  17. 1,017 ha Den Chai fire, February 2019 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 1,012 ha in total · 11 days
  18. 1,382 ha Wang Chin fire, 6 March 2016 2.5% of the municipality · 2,214 ha in total · 22 days
  19. 2,833 ha Den Chai fire, March 2016 where it started 5.2% of the municipality · 5,987 ha in total · 24 days
  20. 778 ha Wang Chin fire, February 2016 1.4% of the municipality · 1,233 ha in total · 8 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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