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Wildfires in Mae On แม่ออน

Mae On, Thailand, has had 18 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 16,248 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 34% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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 29 Low 31° · 48 % · 21 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 56 % · 20 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 65 % · 17 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 67 % · 22 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 67 % · 18 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 29° · 65 % · 22 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 62 % · 22 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 30° · 64 % · 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

16,248
hectares burned
34 %
of its area
18
fires
479
km²

How many times has Mae On burned?

Mae On has burned 18 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: San Kamphaeng fire, April 2026, with 196 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 16,248 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 13,883 hectares, 29 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11. 6× 26
18
fires
7
years with fire
16,248
cumulative ha
13,883
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 On

  1. 196 ha San Kamphaeng fire, April 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 2,413 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 683 ha Mae On fire, 29 March 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,001 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 1,160 ha Mueang Pan fire, 24 March 2026 2.4% of the municipality · 18,078 ha in total · 32 days
  4. 1,062 ha Mae On fire, 23 March 2026 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 4,816 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 7,955 ha Doi Saket fire, 22 March 2026 17% of the municipality · 9,196 ha in total · 34 days
  6. 876 ha Mae On fire, February 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,164 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 132 ha San Kamphaeng fire, 3 March 2024 0.3% of the municipality · 1,127 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 205 ha San Kamphaeng fire, 1 March 2024 0.4% of the municipality · 1,274 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 127 ha Ban Thi fire, March 2023 0.3% of the municipality · 1,366 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 434 ha San Kamphaeng fire, March 2023 0.9% of the municipality · 1,474 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 165 ha Ban Thi fire, March 2021 0.3% of the municipality · 2,410 ha in total · 25 days
  12. 77 ha San Kamphaeng fire, February 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 1,185 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 1,059 ha Mae On fire, 31 March 2020 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,054 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 730 ha Mae On fire, 18 March 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,303 ha in total · 9 days
  15. 730 ha San Kamphaeng fire, March 2020 1.5% of the municipality · 2,516 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 192 ha Ban Thi fire, March 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 4,675 ha in total · 16 days
  17. 411 ha Ban Thi fire, March 2019 0.9% of the municipality · 1,300 ha in total · 15 days
  18. 53 ha Ban Thi fire, March 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 1,129 ha in total · 4 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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