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Wildfires in Mae Fa Luang แม่ฟ้าหลวง

Mae Fa Luang, Thailand, has had 19 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 26,715 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 40% 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. Tue 3 Very low 31° · 53 % · 21 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 71 % · 27 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very low 30° · 60 % · 22 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 27° · 73 % · 21 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 25° · 76 % · 26 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 27° · 72 % · 23 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 26° · 74 % · 42 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 24° · 58 % · 35 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

26,715
hectares burned
40 %
of its area
19
fires
663
km²

How many times has Mae Fa Luang burned?

Mae Fa Luang has burned 19 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Mae Fa Luang fire, April 2026, with 1,156 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 26,715 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 16,378 hectares, 25 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 5× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 3× 26
19
fires
6
years with fire
26,715
cumulative ha
16,378
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 Fa Luang

  1. 1,156 ha Mae Fa Luang fire, April 2026 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,151 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 1,336 ha Mae Chan fire, March 2026 2.0% of the municipality · 2,232 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 990 ha Mae Fa Luang fire, March 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,222 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 1,014 ha Mae Fa Luang fire, April 2024 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,030 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 1,514 ha Mae Fa Luang fire, April 2023 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 1,506 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 1,291 ha Mae Chan fire, March 2023 2.0% of the municipality · 17,804 ha in total · 31 days
  7. 1,217 ha Mae Fa Luang fire, April 2020 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,211 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 2,284 ha Mae Fa Luang fire, March 2020 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 2,273 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 129 ha Mae Chan fire, 22 March 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 1,861 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 3,597 ha Mae Chan fire, 22 March 2020 5.4% of the municipality · 4,967 ha in total · 18 days
  11. 1,065 ha Mae Fa Luang fire, May 2019 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,059 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 1,436 ha Mae Fa Luang fire, 17 April 2019 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,430 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 1,484 ha Mae Fa Luang fire, 16 April 2019 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,482 ha in total · 7 days
  14. 888 ha Mae Fa Luang fire, March 2019 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,138 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 1,662 ha Mae Fa Luang fire, 25 April 2016 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 1,653 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 2,402 ha Mae Fa Luang fire, 12 April 2016 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 2,884 ha in total · 12 days
  17. 1,230 ha Mae Fa Luang fire, 12 April 2016 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,226 ha in total · 12 days
  18. 1,096 ha Mae Fa Luang fire, 11 April 2016 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,091 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 923 ha Mae Fa Luang fire, March 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,052 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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