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Wildfires in Ngao งาว

Ngao, Thailand, has had 49 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 75,872 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 51% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 5).

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 1 Very low 33° · 52 % · 20 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Low 33° · 54 % · 25 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 31° · 60 % · 21 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 57 % · 13 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Low 32° · 55 % · 17 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very low 30° · 67 % · 22 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 28° · 75 % · 22 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 30° · 66 % · 25 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

75,872
hectares burned
51 %
of its area
49
fires
1,502
km²

How many times has Ngao burned?

Ngao has burned 49 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Ngao fire, May 2026, with 1,635 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 10× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 7× 25
  11. 21× 26
49
fires
8
years with fire
75,872
cumulative ha
1 May 2026
most recent

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 Ngao

  1. 1,635 ha Ngao fire, May 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,627 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,657 ha Ngao fire, 14 April 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,648 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 1,045 ha Ngao fire, 10 April 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,039 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 1,363 ha Ngao fire, 9 April 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,355 ha in total · 12 days
  5. 1,597 ha Ngao fire, 5 April 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,670 ha in total · 16 days
  6. 2,223 ha Ngao fire, 25 March 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,210 ha in total · 10 days
  7. 137 ha Dok Khamtai fire, 24 March 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 1,161 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 4 ha Song fire, 23 March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,755 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 559 ha Song fire, 23 March 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 2,234 ha in total · 13 days
  10. 21 ha Dok Khamtai fire, 23 March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,834 ha in total · 11 days
  11. 152 ha Mueang Phayao fire, 23 March 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 4,105 ha in total · 12 days
  12. 2,624 ha Ngao fire, 22 March 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,151 ha in total · 14 days
  13. 10,080 ha Chae Hom fire, 21 March 2026 6.7% of the municipality · 15,027 ha in total · 35 days
  14. 622 ha Ngao fire, 20 March 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,883 ha in total · 17 days
  15. 17,516 ha Mae Mo fire, 17 March 2026 12% of the municipality · 44,036 ha in total · 42 days
  16. 483 ha Ngao fire, 1 March 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,030 ha in total · 9 days
  17. 206 ha Mae Mo fire, 1 March 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 1,275 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 218 ha Mae Mo fire, 28 February 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 3,258 ha in total · 8 days
  19. 392 ha Ngao fire, 26 February 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,687 ha in total · 8 days
  20. 1,310 ha Ngao fire, 12 February 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,304 ha in total · 8 days
  21. 1,365 ha Ngao fire, 12 February 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,359 ha in total · 9 days
  22. 420 ha Mae Mo fire, March 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 1,059 ha in total · 4 days
  23. 221 ha Song fire, 24 March 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 1,433 ha in total · 5 days
  24. 851 ha Ngao fire, 24 March 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,083 ha in total · 7 days
  25. 329 ha Song fire, 24 March 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 1,168 ha in total · 4 days
  26. 1,119 ha Ngao fire, 24 March 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,114 ha in total · 7 days
  27. 1,996 ha Ngao fire, 17 March 2025 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,987 ha in total · 14 days
  28. 1,711 ha Ngao fire, 1 March 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,508 ha in total · 6 days
  29. 1,498 ha Ngao fire, April 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,705 ha in total · 5 days
  30. 655 ha Dok Khamtai fire, March 2023 0.4% of the municipality · 5,315 ha in total · 22 days
  31. 1,045 ha Ngao fire, March 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,038 ha in total · 17 days
  32. 1,079 ha Ngao fire, 25 February 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,074 ha in total · 4 days
  33. 1,262 ha Ngao fire, 20 February 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,256 ha in total · 15 days
  34. 1,092 ha Ngao fire, 23 March 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,648 ha in total · 16 days
  35. 1,033 ha Ngao fire, 11 March 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,027 ha in total · 3 days
  36. 1,316 ha Ngao fire, January 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,311 ha in total · 4 days
  37. 1,067 ha Ngao fire, April 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,061 ha in total · 8 days
  38. 1,673 ha Chae Hom fire, April 2019 1.1% of the municipality · 2,360 ha in total · 23 days
  39. 48 ha Wang Nuea fire, 28 March 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 4,996 ha in total · 20 days
  40. 799 ha Ngao fire, 8 April 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,387 ha in total · 11 days
  41. 84 ha Mueang Phayao fire, April 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 1,073 ha in total · 4 days
  42. 1,012 ha Ngao fire, 4 April 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,007 ha in total · 12 days
  43. 1,337 ha Ngao fire, 16 March 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,329 ha in total · 8 days
  44. 1,087 ha Ngao fire, 16 March 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,083 ha in total · 3 days
  45. 3,330 ha Ngao fire, 15 March 2016 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 3,311 ha in total · 13 days
  46. 58 ha Song fire, 11 March 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 3,480 ha in total · 12 days
  47. 342 ha Song fire, 10 March 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 1,607 ha in total · 13 days
  48. 2,394 ha Ngao fire, 9 March 2016 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,381 ha in total · 16 days
  49. 1,801 ha Mueang Phayao fire, 8 March 2016 1.2% of the municipality · 4,027 ha in total · 20 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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