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Wildfires in Mae Sot แม่สอด

Mae Sot, Thailand, has had 22 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 51,329 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 32% 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. Thu 5 Low 32° · 47 % · 28 km/h
  2. Fri 6 Very low 30° · 68 % · 31 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Very low 27° · 71 % · 28 km/h
  4. Sun 8 Very low 27° · 71 % · 38 km/h
  5. Mon 9 Very low 27° · 71 % · 45 km/h
  6. Tue 10 Low 26° · 59 % · 58 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Low 25° · 62 % · 41 km/h
  8. Thu 12 Low 24° · 68 % · 44 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 Sot: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

51,329
hectares burned
32 %
of its area
22
fires
1,587
km²

How many times has Mae Sot burned?

Mae Sot has burned 22 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Mae Sot fire, April 2026, with 1,972 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 51,329 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 44,282 hectares, 28 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 3× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 10× 26
22
fires
6
years with fire
51,329
cumulative ha
44,282
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 Sot

  1. 1,972 ha Mae Sot fire, April 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,961 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 648 ha Phop Phra fire, April 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 1,197 ha in total · 18 days
  3. 1,888 ha Mae Sot fire, 26 March 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,879 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 1,376 ha Mae Sot fire, 24 March 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,369 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 3,086 ha Mae Sot fire, 21 March 2026 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 3,067 ha in total · 14 days
  6. 260 ha Phop Phra fire, 21 March 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 1,012 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 5,823 ha Mae Sot fire, 20 March 2026 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 5,640 ha in total · 20 days
  8. 6,668 ha Mae Sot fire, 18 March 2026 where it started 4.2% of the municipality · 6,449 ha in total · 18 days
  9. 10,852 ha Mae Sot fire, 17 March 2026 where it started 6.8% of the municipality · 10,453 ha in total · 33 days
  10. 850 ha Mae Sot fire, 16 March 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,126 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 1,265 ha Mae Sot fire, March 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,257 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 1,014 ha Mae Sot fire, March 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,008 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 1,019 ha Mae Sot fire, 26 February 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,014 ha in total · 13 days
  14. 1,077 ha Mae Sot fire, 14 February 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,071 ha in total · 8 days
  15. 3,104 ha Mae Sot fire, 11 April 2018 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 3,186 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 21 ha Mueang Tak fire, 9 April 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 3,507 ha in total · 7 days
  17. 2,078 ha Mae Sot fire, 8 April 2018 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,065 ha in total · 6 days
  18. 1,095 ha Mae Sot fire, 19 March 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,089 ha in total · 7 days
  19. 2,721 ha Mae Sot fire, 6 March 2017 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,706 ha in total · 11 days
  20. 571 ha Mueang Tak fire, 9 April 2016 0.4% of the municipality · 4,442 ha in total · 14 days
  21. 3,314 ha Mae Ramat fire, 9 April 2016 2.1% of the municipality · 3,735 ha in total · 14 days
  22. 625 ha Phop Phra fire, April 2016 0.4% of the municipality · 1,815 ha in total · 12 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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