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Wildfires in Omkoi อมก๋อย

Omkoi, Thailand, has had 42 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 58,112 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 20% 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. Mon 26 Very low 25° · 73 % · 34 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 24° · 70 % · 46 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 23° · 72 % · 44 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 25° · 67 % · 45 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 24° · 74 % · 36 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 25° · 71 % · 30 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 27° · 64 % · 20 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 26° · 69 % · 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

58,112
hectares burned
20 %
of its area
42
fires
2,868
km²

How many times has Omkoi burned?

Omkoi has burned 42 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Omkoi fire, April 2026, with 1,011 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 5× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 4× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 7× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 5× 24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 6× 26
42
fires
11
years with fire
58,112
cumulative ha
15 Apr 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 Omkoi

  1. 1,011 ha Omkoi fire, April 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,004 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 4,941 ha Sop Moei fire, 21 March 2026 1.7% of the municipality · 56,946 ha in total · 35 days
  3. 1,248 ha Omkoi fire, 20 March 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,242 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 12,831 ha Omkoi fire, 19 March 2026 where it started 4.5% of the municipality · 12,765 ha in total · 33 days
  5. 902 ha Mae Ramat fire, 18 March 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 8,380 ha in total · 23 days
  6. 1,262 ha Omkoi fire, 1 March 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,280 ha in total · 11 days
  7. 422 ha Sop Moei fire, 28 March 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 1,072 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 1,177 ha Omkoi fire, March 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,171 ha in total · 12 days
  9. 1,307 ha Sop Moei fire, 12 March 2025 0.5% of the municipality · 3,833 ha in total · 24 days
  10. 43 ha Mae Ramat fire, 11 March 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 2,688 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 243 ha Sop Moei fire, 24 March 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 1,676 ha in total · 11 days
  12. 490 ha Omkoi fire, 18 March 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,607 ha in total · 14 days
  13. 685 ha Sop Moei fire, 12 March 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 1,500 ha in total · 7 days
  14. 1,379 ha Omkoi fire, 10 March 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,396 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 1,345 ha Omkoi fire, 5 March 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,340 ha in total · 12 days
  16. 2,101 ha Omkoi fire, March 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,088 ha in total · 4 days
  17. 1,469 ha Sop Moei fire, 18 March 2023 0.5% of the municipality · 3,128 ha in total · 19 days
  18. 0 ha Sam Ngao fire, 5 February 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 2,740 ha in total · 11 days
  19. 1,102 ha Omkoi fire, March 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,739 ha in total · 1 day
  20. 2,264 ha Omkoi fire, March 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,296 ha in total · 2 days
  21. 41 ha Mae Ramat fire, 25 February 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 1,688 ha in total · 8 days
  22. 2,164 ha Omkoi fire, 3 April 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,347 ha in total · 9 days
  23. 1,383 ha Omkoi fire, 2 April 2020 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,383 ha in total · 7 days
  24. 120 ha Sop Moei fire, April 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 3,325 ha in total · 23 days
  25. 1,069 ha Omkoi fire, 31 March 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,064 ha in total · 5 days
  26. 1,241 ha Omkoi fire, 25 March 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,232 ha in total · 11 days
  27. 4,157 ha Omkoi fire, 14 March 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 4,456 ha in total · 22 days
  28. 2,248 ha Sop Moei fire, 7 March 2020 0.8% of the municipality · 6,625 ha in total · 11 days
  29. 788 ha Sop Moei fire, 20 March 2019 0.3% of the municipality · 12,470 ha in total · 34 days
  30. 454 ha Omkoi fire, February 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,144 ha in total · 14 days
  31. 732 ha Omkoi fire, April 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,193 ha in total · 2 days
  32. 185 ha Tha Song Yang fire, 3 April 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 31,164 ha in total · 22 days
  33. 522 ha Sop Moei fire, 16 March 2018 0.2% of the municipality · 1,176 ha in total · 9 days
  34. 79 ha Sop Moei fire, 11 March 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 1,063 ha in total · 8 days
  35. 60 ha Mae Ramat fire, 23 April 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,756 ha in total · 4 days
  36. 1,722 ha Omkoi fire, March 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,550 ha in total · 16 days
  37. 21 ha Sop Moei fire, March 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,034 ha in total · 7 days
  38. 498 ha Tha Song Yang fire, 9 April 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 2,239 ha in total · 19 days
  39. 938 ha Omkoi fire, 24 March 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,715 ha in total · 2 days
  40. 1,069 ha Omkoi fire, 20 March 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,098 ha in total · 17 days
  41. 971 ha Omkoi fire, 18 March 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,172 ha in total · 8 days
  42. 1,427 ha Omkoi fire, 18 March 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,862 ha in total · 14 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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