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Wildfires in Mae Chai แม่ใจ

Mae Chai, Thailand, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 6,448 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 22% 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. Fri 6 Very low 29° · 74 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sat 7 Very low 24° · 88 % · 28 km/h
  3. Sun 8 Very low 26° · 72 % · 28 km/h
  4. Mon 9 Very low 24° · 85 % · 32 km/h
  5. Tue 10 Very low 23° · 61 % · 31 km/h
  6. Wed 11 Very low 21° · 76 % · 28 km/h
  7. Thu 12 Very low 21° · 78 % · 21 km/h
  8. Fri 13 Very low 25° · 72 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Mae Chai: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

6,448
hectares burned
22 %
of its area
7
fires
297
km²

How many times has Mae Chai burned?

Mae Chai has burned 7 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2020, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Phan fire, 8 April 2026, with 76 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 6,448 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,195 hectares, 17 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
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  11. 4× 26
7
fires
4
years with fire
6,448
cumulative ha
5,195
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 Mae Chai

  1. 76 ha Phan fire, 8 April 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 1,120 ha in total · 17 days
  2. 34 ha Wang Nuea fire, 2 April 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 1,547 ha in total · 18 days
  3. 881 ha Mae Chai fire, 30 March 2026 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 1,157 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 2,878 ha Mae Chai fire, 27 March 2026 where it started 9.7% of the municipality · 2,860 ha in total · 23 days
  5. 98 ha Phan fire, April 2023 0.3% of the municipality · 1,091 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 1,391 ha Mae Chai fire, March 2020 where it started 4.7% of the municipality · 1,383 ha in total · 15 days
  7. 1,090 ha Mae Chai fire, April 2016 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 1,084 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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