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Wildfires in Mae Rim แม่ริม

Mae Rim, Thailand, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 3,850 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.4% 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. Sat 14 Very low 26° · 63 % · 19 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Very low 28° · 57 % · 20 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very low 28° · 58 % · 17 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 27° · 62 % · 18 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 26° · 85 % · 25 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low 25° · 85 % · 20 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 26° · 68 % · 21 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low 26° · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Mae Rim: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

3,850
hectares burned
8.4 %
of its area
8
fires
456
km²

How many times has Mae Rim burned?

Mae Rim has burned 8 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2017, 2020, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Samoeng fire, 21 March 2026, with 597 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 3,850 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,630 hectares, 8.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
8
fires
5
years with fire
3,850
cumulative ha
3,630
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 Rim

  1. 597 ha Samoeng fire, 21 March 2026 1.3% of the municipality · 47,840 ha in total · 35 days
  2. 45 ha Hang Dong fire, 28 March 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 1,063 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 225 ha Samoeng fire, 14 March 2020 0.5% of the municipality · 9,042 ha in total · 26 days
  4. 60 ha Hang Dong fire, 7 March 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 1,729 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 1,447 ha Mae Rim fire, March 2017 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 1,439 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 781 ha Mae Rim fire, April 2016 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,022 ha in total · 10 days
  7. 650 ha Samoeng fire, 2 April 2016 1.4% of the municipality · 2,898 ha in total · 19 days
  8. 46 ha Hang Dong fire, March 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 12,864 ha in total · 29 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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