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Wildfires in Mae Wang แม่วาง

Mae Wang, Thailand, has had 16 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 38,137 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 56% 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. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 60 % · 32 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 68 % · 26 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 61 % · 27 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 60 % · 25 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 65 % · 25 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 69 % · 23 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 28° · 76 % · 26 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 28° · 71 % · 28 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

38,137
hectares burned
56 %
of its area
16
fires
681
km²

How many times has Mae Wang burned?

Mae Wang has burned 16 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Samoeng fire, 21 March 2026, with 13,673 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 38,137 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 21,803 hectares, 32 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
16
fires
9
years with fire
38,137
cumulative ha
21,803
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 Wang

  1. 13,673 ha Samoeng fire, 21 March 2026 20% of the municipality · 48,637 ha in total · 35 days
  2. 1,534 ha Mae Wang fire, March 2024 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,526 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 1,392 ha Doi Lo fire, March 2024 2.0% of the municipality · 5,683 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 4,184 ha Mae Wang fire, February 2024 where it started 6.2% of the municipality · 4,162 ha in total · 23 days
  5. 3,595 ha Mae Wang fire, March 2023 where it started 5.3% of the municipality · 3,576 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 3 ha Hang Dong fire, 21 March 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,195 ha in total · 17 days
  7. 1,801 ha Mae Wang fire, February 2021 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 1,791 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 2,365 ha Mae Wang fire, April 2020 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 2,353 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 69 ha Doi Lo fire, February 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 1,146 ha in total · 12 days
  10. 1,279 ha Mae Wang fire, March 2018 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 1,273 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 1,192 ha Mae Wang fire, 15 March 2017 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,185 ha in total · 12 days
  12. 2,525 ha Mae Wang fire, 8 March 2017 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 2,512 ha in total · 13 days
  13. 993 ha Mae Wang fire, May 2016 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,477 ha in total · 7 days
  14. 1,053 ha Mae Wang fire, 12 April 2016 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,089 ha in total · 12 days
  15. 483 ha Mae Wang fire, 12 April 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,014 ha in total · 17 days
  16. 1,995 ha Mae Wang fire, 11 April 2016 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 2,179 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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