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Wildfires in Mae Taeng แม่แตง

Mae Taeng, Thailand, has had 37 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 71,823 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 51% 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. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 54 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 60 % · 20 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 29° · 62 % · 23 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 27° · 67 % · 23 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 28° · 62 % · 19 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 28° · 62 % · 27 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 27° · 65 % · 27 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 23° · 93 % · 27 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

71,823
hectares burned
51 %
of its area
37
fires
1,420
km²

How many times has Mae Taeng burned?

Mae Taeng has burned 37 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Mae Taeng fire, April 2026, with 1,099 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 71,823 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 43,965 hectares, 31 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 12× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7.   22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 4× 24
  10.   25
  11. 6× 26
37
fires
8
years with fire
71,823
cumulative ha
43,965
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 Taeng

  1. 1,099 ha Mae Taeng fire, April 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,208 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 1,340 ha Mae Taeng fire, 26 March 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,332 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 1,554 ha Samoeng fire, 24 March 2026 1.1% of the municipality · 1,901 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 602 ha Chiang Dao fire, 23 March 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 2,481 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 18,576 ha Doi Saket fire, 19 March 2026 13% of the municipality · 53,483 ha in total · 33 days
  6. 9,371 ha Mae Taeng fire, 18 March 2026 where it started 6.6% of the municipality · 9,323 ha in total · 17 days
  7. 1,879 ha Mae Taeng fire, April 2024 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,870 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 654 ha Phrao fire, 23 March 2024 0.5% of the municipality · 1,364 ha in total · 11 days
  9. 2,610 ha Mae Taeng fire, March 2024 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,596 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 2,159 ha Phrao fire, 5 March 2024 1.5% of the municipality · 4,924 ha in total · 12 days
  11. 2 ha Phrao fire, 9 April 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,079 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 1,121 ha Mae Taeng fire, 27 March 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,124 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 1,011 ha Mae Taeng fire, 23 March 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,006 ha in total · 13 days
  14. 1,684 ha Mae Taeng fire, 24 March 2021 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,675 ha in total · 10 days
  15. 1,047 ha Mae Taeng fire, 17 March 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,284 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 672 ha Phrao fire, 14 March 2021 0.5% of the municipality · 1,250 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 1,873 ha Mae Taeng fire, 4 March 2021 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,123 ha in total · 15 days
  18. 3,137 ha Mae Taeng fire, April 2020 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 3,578 ha in total · 19 days
  19. 1,052 ha Chiang Dao fire, April 2020 0.7% of the municipality · 2,566 ha in total · 13 days
  20. 2,177 ha Mae Taeng fire, 26 March 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,164 ha in total · 12 days
  21. 162 ha Chiang Dao fire, 18 March 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 1,552 ha in total · 10 days
  22. 27 ha Chiang Dao fire, 17 March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,276 ha in total · 12 days
  23. 492 ha Phrao fire, 17 March 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 1,832 ha in total · 17 days
  24. 1,901 ha Mae Taeng fire, 14 March 2020 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,891 ha in total · 9 days
  25. 1,312 ha Mae Taeng fire, 10 March 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,305 ha in total · 8 days
  26. 849 ha Mae Taeng fire, 8 March 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,420 ha in total · 11 days
  27. 4 ha Doi Saket fire, 6 March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,372 ha in total · 7 days
  28. 1,690 ha Phrao fire, 1 March 2020 1.2% of the municipality · 4,378 ha in total · 15 days
  29. 1,366 ha Mae Taeng fire, February 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,359 ha in total · 5 days
  30. 1,127 ha Mae Taeng fire, March 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,121 ha in total · 13 days
  31. 1,486 ha Mae Taeng fire, 19 March 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,479 ha in total · 8 days
  32. 769 ha Mae Taeng fire, 18 March 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,100 ha in total · 9 days
  33. 2,023 ha Mae Taeng fire, 12 March 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,012 ha in total · 12 days
  34. 264 ha Phrao fire, April 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 1,327 ha in total · 5 days
  35. 1,782 ha Samoeng fire, 2 April 2016 1.3% of the municipality · 2,925 ha in total · 19 days
  36. 319 ha Doi Saket fire, March 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 1,180 ha in total · 5 days
  37. 2,632 ha Mae Taeng fire, March 2016 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,233 ha in total · 18 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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