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Wildfires in Mae Lao แม่ลาว

Mae Lao, Thailand, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 7,720 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 35% 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. Thu 5 Very low 32° · 52 % · 15 km/h
  2. Fri 6 Very low 30° · 66 % · 16 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Very low 27° · 81 % · 26 km/h
  4. Sun 8 Very low 27° · 73 % · 23 km/h
  5. Mon 9 Very low 27° · 66 % · 32 km/h
  6. Tue 10 Very low 25° · 58 % · 38 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Very low 23° · 64 % · 30 km/h
  8. Thu 12 Very low 23° · 72 % · 19 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 Lao: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

7,720
hectares burned
35 %
of its area
9
fires
218
km²

How many times has Mae Lao burned?

Mae Lao has burned 9 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2020, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Phan fire, March 2026, with 836 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 7,720 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,738 hectares, 17 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 3× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 3× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
9
fires
4
years with fire
7,720
cumulative ha
3,738
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 Lao

  1. 836 ha Phan fire, March 2026 3.8% of the municipality · 12,562 ha in total · 29 days
  2. 2,151 ha Mae Lao fire, March 2026 where it started 9.9% of the municipality · 10,342 ha in total · 28 days
  3. 186 ha Mueang Chiang Rai fire, 23 March 2023 0.9% of the municipality · 5,720 ha in total · 16 days
  4. 469 ha Mueang Chiang Rai fire, 23 March 2023 2.2% of the municipality · 3,482 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 639 ha Mae Lao fire, March 2023 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 22,917 ha in total · 34 days
  6. 106 ha Mueang Chiang Rai fire, 28 March 2020 0.5% of the municipality · 5,670 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 1,260 ha Mueang Chiang Rai fire, 17 March 2020 5.8% of the municipality · 1,786 ha in total · 19 days
  8. 366 ha Mueang Chiang Rai fire, 11 March 2020 1.7% of the municipality · 1,712 ha in total · 9 days
  9. 1,706 ha Mueang Chiang Rai fire, 3 April 2016 7.8% of the municipality · 3,590 ha in total · 22 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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