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Wildfires in Mae Phrik แม่พริก

Mae Phrik, Thailand, has had 31 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 53,540 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 80% 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. Sun 8 Very low 26° · 85 % · 26 km/h
  2. Mon 9 Very low 28° · 66 % · 31 km/h
  3. Tue 10 Very low 26° · 62 % · 29 km/h
  4. Wed 11 Very low 25° · 64 % · 26 km/h
  5. Thu 12 Very low 25° · 68 % · 27 km/h
  6. Fri 13 Very low 28° · 65 % · 23 km/h
  7. Sat 14 Very low 29° · 60 % · 21 km/h
  8. Sun 15 Very low 30° · 56 % · 17 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 Phrik: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

53,540
hectares burned
80 %
of its area
31
fires
667
km²

How many times has Mae Phrik burned?

Mae Phrik has burned 31 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Thoen fire, April 2026, with 733 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 53,540 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 32,741 hectares, 49 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7.   22
  8. 5× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 4× 26
31
fires
10
years with fire
53,540
cumulative ha
32,741
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 Phrik

  1. 733 ha Thoen fire, April 2026 1.1% of the municipality · 1,507 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 21,582 ha Mae Phrik fire, March 2026 where it started 32% of the municipality · 45,160 ha in total · 37 days
  3. 181 ha Li fire, 19 March 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 28,424 ha in total · 32 days
  4. 3,460 ha Mae Phrik fire, February 2026 where it started 5.2% of the municipality · 3,441 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 78 ha Thoen fire, 24 March 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 2,863 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 3,330 ha Mae Phrik fire, 6 March 2025 where it started 5.0% of the municipality · 18,226 ha in total · 27 days
  7. 1,840 ha Mae Phrik fire, 3 March 2025 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 1,829 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 932 ha Thoen fire, February 2025 1.4% of the municipality · 1,320 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 3,219 ha Mae Phrik fire, 5 March 2024 where it started 4.8% of the municipality · 3,553 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 1,081 ha Mae Phrik fire, 1 March 2024 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,075 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 3,162 ha Mae Phrik fire, 1 March 2024 where it started 4.7% of the municipality · 12,196 ha in total · 19 days
  12. 1,177 ha Mae Phrik fire, March 2023 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,201 ha in total · 15 days
  13. 20 ha Li fire, 20 February 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 3,012 ha in total · 17 days
  14. 15 ha Sam Ngao fire, 13 February 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,369 ha in total · 17 days
  15. 1,533 ha Mae Phrik fire, February 2023 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 1,593 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 2 ha Sam Ngao fire, 9 February 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,645 ha in total · 7 days
  17. 252 ha Li fire, 20 February 2021 0.4% of the municipality · 4,377 ha in total · 17 days
  18. 19 ha Sam Ngao fire, 11 February 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 1,714 ha in total · 7 days
  19. 686 ha Sam Ngao fire, January 2021 1.0% of the municipality · 1,640 ha in total · 7 days
  20. 4 ha Li fire, 1 February 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 4,039 ha in total · 18 days
  21. 920 ha Sam Ngao fire, 22 December 2019 1.4% of the municipality · 2,135 ha in total · 7 days
  22. 1,766 ha Thoen fire, 17 February 2019 2.6% of the municipality · 2,120 ha in total · 22 days
  23. 2,049 ha Mae Phrik fire, February 2019 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 21,073 ha in total · 37 days
  24. 4 ha Sam Ngao fire, 5 March 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 1,485 ha in total · 10 days
  25. 45 ha Li fire, 4 March 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 1,248 ha in total · 4 days
  26. 724 ha Thoen fire, 11 March 2017 1.1% of the municipality · 1,926 ha in total · 8 days
  27. 1,762 ha Mae Phrik fire, 8 March 2017 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 1,752 ha in total · 12 days
  28. 2,763 ha Mae Phrik fire, 8 March 2017 where it started 4.1% of the municipality · 2,747 ha in total · 12 days
  29. 37 ha Sam Ngao fire, 4 March 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 6,069 ha in total · 19 days
  30. 0 ha Ban Tak fire, March 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,639 ha in total · 4 days
  31. 164 ha Sam Ngao fire, January 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 1,082 ha in total · 7 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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