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Wildfires in Phrao พร้าว

Phrao, Thailand, has had 42 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 80,532 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 62% 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 29 Very low 30° · 49 % · 16 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 55 % · 16 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 66 % · 17 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 65 % · 21 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 28° · 73 % · 21 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 28° · 67 % · 23 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 29° · 66 % · 23 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 28° · 68 % · 18 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

80,532
hectares burned
62 %
of its area
42
fires
1,289
km²

How many times has Phrao burned?

Phrao has burned 42 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Phrao fire, 14 April 2026, with 1,223 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 5× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 9× 20
  6. 6× 21
  7.   22
  8. 5× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10.   25
  11. 10× 26
42
fires
8
years with fire
80,532
cumulative ha
14 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 Phrao

  1. 1,223 ha Phrao fire, 14 April 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,215 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 1,828 ha Phrao fire, 9 April 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,820 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 1,184 ha Phrao fire, 23 March 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,177 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 647 ha Phrao fire, 23 March 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 12,293 ha in total · 33 days
  5. 3 ha Wiang Pa Pao fire, 23 March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 12,779 ha in total · 33 days
  6. 172 ha Chiang Dao fire, 22 March 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 2,271 ha in total · 13 days
  7. 15,480 ha Phrao fire, 21 March 2026 where it started 12% of the municipality · 15,402 ha in total · 35 days
  8. 1 ha Chiang Dao fire, 21 March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 5,421 ha in total · 13 days
  9. 1,846 ha Chai Prakan fire, March 2026 1.4% of the municipality · 10,659 ha in total · 15 days
  10. 11,248 ha Doi Saket fire, 19 March 2026 8.7% of the municipality · 53,483 ha in total · 33 days
  11. 717 ha Phrao fire, 23 March 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,364 ha in total · 11 days
  12. 708 ha Phrao fire, 12 March 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,294 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 2,060 ha Phrao fire, 5 March 2024 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 4,924 ha in total · 12 days
  14. 949 ha Phrao fire, 9 April 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,079 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 1,028 ha Phrao fire, 4 April 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,021 ha in total · 9 days
  16. 1,569 ha Phrao fire, 2 April 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,561 ha in total · 16 days
  17. 1,540 ha Phrao fire, March 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,530 ha in total · 13 days
  18. 9 ha Mae Taeng fire, 27 March 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,124 ha in total · 7 days
  19. 2,625 ha Phrao fire, 28 March 2021 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,612 ha in total · 5 days
  20. 243 ha Mae Taeng fire, 17 March 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 1,284 ha in total · 5 days
  21. 584 ha Phrao fire, 14 March 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,250 ha in total · 8 days
  22. 1,096 ha Phrao fire, 7 March 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,090 ha in total · 4 days
  23. 510 ha Phrao fire, 4 March 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,175 ha in total · 6 days
  24. 261 ha Mae Taeng fire, 4 March 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 2,123 ha in total · 15 days
  25. 525 ha Phrao fire, 27 March 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,202 ha in total · 12 days
  26. 1,349 ha Phrao fire, 17 March 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,832 ha in total · 17 days
  27. 14,618 ha Wiang Pa Pao fire, 10 March 2020 11% of the municipality · 16,265 ha in total · 24 days
  28. 1,031 ha Phrao fire, 8 March 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,024 ha in total · 5 days
  29. 50 ha Chai Prakan fire, 6 March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,034 ha in total · 14 days
  30. 2,108 ha Phrao fire, 4 March 2020 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,098 ha in total · 10 days
  31. 804 ha Phrao fire, 3 March 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,094 ha in total · 11 days
  32. 581 ha Chiang Dao fire, 3 March 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 1,825 ha in total · 4 days
  33. 2,708 ha Phrao fire, 1 March 2020 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 4,378 ha in total · 15 days
  34. 97 ha Mae Suai fire, 2 April 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 5,994 ha in total · 21 days
  35. 1,992 ha Phrao fire, 29 March 2019 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,983 ha in total · 14 days
  36. 1,029 ha Phrao fire, 21 March 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,023 ha in total · 6 days
  37. 336 ha Mae Taeng fire, 18 March 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 1,100 ha in total · 9 days
  38. 1,070 ha Phrao fire, April 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,327 ha in total · 5 days
  39. 88 ha Mae Suai fire, 11 April 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 2,456 ha in total · 15 days
  40. 3,519 ha Wiang Pa Pao fire, 15 March 2016 2.7% of the municipality · 9,447 ha in total · 45 days
  41. 917 ha Phrao fire, March 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,021 ha in total · 10 days
  42. 181 ha Chiang Dao fire, 9 March 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 1,954 ha in total · 16 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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