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Wildfires in Hang Chat ห้างฉัตร

Hang Chat, Thailand, has had 16 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 22,021 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 36% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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 30° · 55 % · 29 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 56 % · 26 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 67 % · 25 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 69 % · 21 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 66 % · 18 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 72 % · 22 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 28° · 70 % · 21 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 67 % · 20 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

22,021
hectares burned
36 %
of its area
16
fires
613
km²

How many times has Hang Chat burned?

Hang Chat has burned 16 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mae Tha fire, 26 March 2026, with 326 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 22,021 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 15,967 hectares, 26 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 3× 26
16
fires
8
years with fire
22,021
cumulative ha
15,967
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 Hang Chat

  1. 326 ha Mae Tha fire, 26 March 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 2,179 ha in total · 19 days
  2. 6,176 ha Hang Chat fire, 25 March 2026 where it started 10% of the municipality · 6,208 ha in total · 22 days
  3. 4,745 ha Hang Chat fire, 24 March 2026 where it started 7.7% of the municipality · 4,717 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 852 ha Soem Ngam fire, March 2025 1.4% of the municipality · 1,793 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 27 ha Mae Tha fire, 3 March 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 1,195 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 55 ha Mae Tha fire, February 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 3,461 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 1,461 ha Hang Chat fire, March 2024 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,452 ha in total · 12 days
  8. 1,290 ha Hang Chat fire, March 2023 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 1,348 ha in total · 13 days
  9. 892 ha Mae Tha fire, 3 March 2021 1.4% of the municipality · 1,018 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 1,001 ha Hang Chat fire, April 2019 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,088 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 1,134 ha Hang Chat fire, March 2019 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,127 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 426 ha Soem Ngam fire, March 2019 0.7% of the municipality · 1,160 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 1,098 ha Hang Chat fire, 15 March 2017 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,141 ha in total · 11 days
  14. 12 ha Soem Ngam fire, March 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,013 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 1,281 ha Hang Chat fire, 8 March 2017 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 1,274 ha in total · 15 days
  16. 1,246 ha Hang Chat fire, March 2016 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 1,545 ha in total · 13 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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