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Wildfires in Doi Tao ดอยเต่า

Doi Tao, Thailand, has had 19 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 32,347 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 38% 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. Sun 8 Very low 27° · 89 % · 21 km/h
  2. Mon 9 Very low 29° · 54 % · 32 km/h
  3. Tue 10 Very low 26° · 62 % · 34 km/h
  4. Wed 11 Very low 23° · 74 % · 18 km/h
  5. Thu 12 Very low 25° · 67 % · 14 km/h
  6. Fri 13 Very low 27° · 67 % · 17 km/h
  7. Sat 14 Very low 29° · 58 % · 15 km/h
  8. Sun 15 Very low 30° · 46 % · 18 km/h
  9. Mon 16 Low 30° · 39 % · 15 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 Doi Tao: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

32,347
hectares burned
38 %
of its area
19
fires
861
km²

How many times has Doi Tao burned?

Doi Tao has burned 19 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2020, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Hot fire, 12 April 2026, with 8 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 32,347 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 25,596 hectares, 30 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10.   25
  11. 11× 26
19
fires
6
years with fire
32,347
cumulative ha
25,596
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 Doi Tao

  1. 8 ha Hot fire, 12 April 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,485 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 3,466 ha Hot fire, 23 March 2026 4.0% of the municipality · 5,864 ha in total · 24 days
  3. 743 ha Hot fire, 22 March 2026 0.9% of the municipality · 20,675 ha in total · 26 days
  4. 662 ha Doi Tao fire, 22 March 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,891 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 6,087 ha Li fire, 19 March 2026 7.1% of the municipality · 28,424 ha in total · 32 days
  6. 1,504 ha Doi Tao fire, 2 March 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,497 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 1,258 ha Doi Tao fire, 1 March 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,251 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 1,821 ha Doi Tao fire, 28 February 2026 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 1,905 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 1,085 ha Doi Tao fire, 27 February 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,079 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 4,017 ha Doi Tao fire, 27 February 2026 where it started 4.7% of the municipality · 4,281 ha in total · 7 days
  11. 3,210 ha Doi Tao fire, 4 February 2026 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 3,193 ha in total · 12 days
  12. 891 ha Hot fire, 4 March 2024 1.0% of the municipality · 2,392 ha in total · 14 days
  13. 42 ha Hot fire, 1 March 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 3,777 ha in total · 14 days
  14. 2,345 ha Doi Tao fire, February 2024 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 2,312 ha in total · 18 days
  15. 1,809 ha Doi Tao fire, March 2023 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 1,829 ha in total · 13 days
  16. 1,027 ha Doi Tao fire, February 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,021 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 68 ha Hot fire, 16 January 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 1,615 ha in total · 11 days
  18. 1,028 ha Doi Tao fire, March 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,023 ha in total · 6 days
  19. 1,276 ha Sam Ngao fire, 16 March 2016 1.5% of the municipality · 4,178 ha in total · 11 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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