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Wildfires in Mae Charim แม่จริม

Mae Charim, Thailand, has had 27 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 40,150 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 38% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 30 Very low 30° · 67 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 67 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 64 % · 18 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 71 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 28° · 83 % · 24 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 60 % · 21 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 30° · 65 % · 19 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 28° · 75 % · 23 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

40,150
hectares burned
38 %
of its area
27
fires
1,044
km²

How many times has Mae Charim burned?

Mae Charim has burned 27 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mae Charim fire, 25 March 2026, with 4,727 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 40,150 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 29,575 hectares, 28 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 8× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 4× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 3× 26
27
fires
9
years with fire
40,150
cumulative ha
29,575
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 Charim

  1. 4,727 ha Mae Charim fire, 25 March 2026 where it started 4.5% of the municipality · 4,703 ha in total · 26 days
  2. 1,614 ha Mae Charim fire, 24 March 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,604 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 9,717 ha Na Noi fire, 19 March 2026 9.3% of the municipality · 43,391 ha in total · 35 days
  4. 1,056 ha Mae Charim fire, March 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,050 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 1,732 ha Phu Phiang fire, March 2025 1.7% of the municipality · 4,375 ha in total · 16 days
  6. 69 ha Wiang Sa fire, April 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 1,725 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 623 ha Mae Charim fire, 21 March 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,117 ha in total · 14 days
  8. 1,810 ha Mae Charim fire, 20 March 2023 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,652 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 2,167 ha Mae Charim fire, 19 March 2023 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 2,155 ha in total · 20 days
  10. 1,538 ha Mae Charim fire, 15 March 2023 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,531 ha in total · 23 days
  11. 583 ha Mae Charim fire, 27 March 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,569 ha in total · 9 days
  12. 1,874 ha Mae Charim fire, 23 March 2020 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,865 ha in total · 12 days
  13. 1,813 ha Mae Charim fire, 23 March 2020 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,803 ha in total · 8 days
  14. 1,616 ha Mae Charim fire, 22 March 2020 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,606 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 1,135 ha Mae Charim fire, 22 March 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,130 ha in total · 10 days
  16. 1,047 ha Mae Charim fire, 21 March 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,042 ha in total · 7 days
  17. 14 ha Phu Phiang fire, March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,058 ha in total · 6 days
  18. 1,591 ha Mae Charim fire, 10 March 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,584 ha in total · 11 days
  19. 26 ha Wiang Sa fire, 28 March 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,906 ha in total · 5 days
  20. 1,038 ha Mae Charim fire, 7 March 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,072 ha in total · 10 days
  21. 32 ha Wiang Sa fire, 5 March 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 2,304 ha in total · 12 days
  22. 1,065 ha Mae Charim fire, 4 March 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,059 ha in total · 11 days
  23. 331 ha Wiang Sa fire, April 2018 0.3% of the municipality · 1,094 ha in total · 2 days
  24. 465 ha Phu Phiang fire, March 2017 0.4% of the municipality · 1,386 ha in total · 7 days
  25. 41 ha Wiang Sa fire, 6 April 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,007 ha in total · 13 days
  26. 1,254 ha Wiang Sa fire, 5 April 2016 1.2% of the municipality · 4,601 ha in total · 9 days
  27. 1,172 ha Mae Charim fire, March 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,188 ha in total · 6 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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