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Wildfires in Mae Chaem แม่แจ่ม

Mae Chaem, Thailand, has had 53 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 109,302 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 40% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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 27° · 57 % · 26 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 57 % · 23 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 58 % · 23 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 61 % · 22 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 28° · 62 % · 20 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 27° · 74 % · 25 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 26° · 68 % · 26 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 28° · 52 % · 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

109,302
hectares burned
40 %
of its area
53
fires
2,749
km²

How many times has Mae Chaem burned?

Mae Chaem has burned 53 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Mae Chaem fire, 15 April 2026, with 2,910 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 17× 16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 10× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 10× 24
  10.   25
  11. 7× 26
53
fires
7
years with fire
109,302
cumulative ha
15 Apr 2026
most recent

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 Mae Chaem

  1. 2,910 ha Mae Chaem fire, 15 April 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,896 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 5,081 ha Mae Chaem fire, 7 April 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 5,047 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 1,568 ha Mae Chaem fire, 7 April 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,561 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 4,009 ha Mae Chaem fire, 7 April 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 4,521 ha in total · 17 days
  5. 2,318 ha Mae Chaem fire, 2 April 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,304 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 2,028 ha Mae Chaem fire, 24 March 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,020 ha in total · 10 days
  7. 7,480 ha Mae Chaem fire, 21 March 2026 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 7,439 ha in total · 26 days
  8. 1,039 ha Mae Chaem fire, 1 May 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,033 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 1,838 ha Mae Chaem fire, 1 May 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,830 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 1,161 ha Mae Chaem fire, 30 April 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,156 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 1,394 ha Mae Chaem fire, 27 April 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,387 ha in total · 9 days
  12. 2,401 ha Mae Chaem fire, 26 March 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,386 ha in total · 9 days
  13. 1,942 ha Mae Chaem fire, 12 March 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,935 ha in total · 6 days
  14. 3,793 ha Mae Chaem fire, 24 February 2024 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,776 ha in total · 13 days
  15. 1,178 ha Mae Chaem fire, 23 February 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,172 ha in total · 9 days
  16. 1,211 ha Hot fire, 16 February 2024 0.4% of the municipality · 4,496 ha in total · 26 days
  17. 6,724 ha Hot fire, 16 February 2024 2.4% of the municipality · 6,733 ha in total · 26 days
  18. 1,192 ha Mae Chaem fire, April 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,187 ha in total · 14 days
  19. 1,072 ha Mae Chaem fire, 28 March 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,065 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 1,452 ha Mae Chaem fire, 25 March 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,446 ha in total · 8 days
  21. 740 ha Mae Chaem fire, April 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,123 ha in total · 8 days
  22. 1,255 ha Mae Chaem fire, 27 March 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,247 ha in total · 9 days
  23. 354 ha Galyani Vadhana fire, March 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 1,036 ha in total · 11 days
  24. 3,287 ha Mae Chaem fire, 23 March 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,273 ha in total · 5 days
  25. 7,464 ha Mae Chaem fire, 22 March 2020 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 8,068 ha in total · 22 days
  26. 1,104 ha Mae Chaem fire, 11 March 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,098 ha in total · 1 day
  27. 1,046 ha Mae Chaem fire, 10 March 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,042 ha in total · 12 days
  28. 1,226 ha Mae Chaem fire, 29 February 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,220 ha in total · 6 days
  29. 1,762 ha Mae Chaem fire, 24 February 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,754 ha in total · 8 days
  30. 1,057 ha Mae Chaem fire, January 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,052 ha in total · 11 days
  31. 1,510 ha Mae Chaem fire, 25 April 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,499 ha in total · 8 days
  32. 1,216 ha Mae Chaem fire, 25 April 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,209 ha in total · 8 days
  33. 1,772 ha Mae Chaem fire, 19 April 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,762 ha in total · 15 days
  34. 1,309 ha Mae Chaem fire, February 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,303 ha in total · 3 days
  35. 1,877 ha Mae Chaem fire, 22 April 2018 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,865 ha in total · 2 days
  36. 1,172 ha Mae Chaem fire, 21 April 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,167 ha in total · 4 days
  37. 1,426 ha Mae Chaem fire, 17 April 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,419 ha in total · 8 days
  38. 1,585 ha Mae Chaem fire, 16 April 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,576 ha in total · 14 days
  39. 5,881 ha Mae Chaem fire, 16 April 2016 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 5,841 ha in total · 8 days
  40. 1,078 ha Mae Chaem fire, 16 April 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,074 ha in total · 10 days
  41. 1,171 ha Mae Chaem fire, 16 April 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,176 ha in total · 12 days
  42. 1,633 ha Mae Chaem fire, 16 April 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,624 ha in total · 8 days
  43. 2,186 ha Mae Chaem fire, 16 April 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,171 ha in total · 12 days
  44. 1,152 ha Mae Chaem fire, 16 April 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,147 ha in total · 10 days
  45. 995 ha Mae Chaem fire, 16 April 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,009 ha in total · 12 days
  46. 10 ha Galyani Vadhana fire, 16 April 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,131 ha in total · 12 days
  47. 2,373 ha Mae Chaem fire, 16 April 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,360 ha in total · 9 days
  48. 1,183 ha Mae Chaem fire, 16 April 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,175 ha in total · 3 days
  49. 2,584 ha Mae Chaem fire, 16 April 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,573 ha in total · 13 days
  50. 3,280 ha Mae Chaem fire, 12 April 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,275 ha in total · 18 days
  51. 42 ha Mae Wang fire, 12 April 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,089 ha in total · 12 days
  52. 195 ha Mae Wang fire, 11 April 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 2,179 ha in total · 18 days
  53. 2,586 ha Mae Chaem fire, 11 April 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,827 ha in total · 16 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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