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Wildfires in Phu Luang ภูหลวง

Phu Luang, Thailand, has had 21 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 24,058 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 43% 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 3 Very low 29° · 57 % · 25 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very low 29° · 63 % · 18 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very low 29° · 69 % · 20 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 26° · 78 % · 19 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 27° · 67 % · 27 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 27° · 64 % · 39 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 26° · 72 % · 61 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 24° · 59 % · 45 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

24,058
hectares burned
43 %
of its area
21
fires
562
km²

How many times has Phu Luang burned?

Phu Luang has burned 21 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Phu Luang fire, 14 April 2026, with 2,487 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 24,058 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 16,278 hectares, 29 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 5× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 6× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 5× 26
21
fires
7
years with fire
24,058
cumulative ha
16,278
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 Phu Luang

  1. 2,487 ha Phu Luang fire, 14 April 2026 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 2,473 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 1,298 ha Phu Luang fire, 13 April 2026 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 1,291 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 34 ha Lom Kao fire, 8 April 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 7,219 ha in total · 14 days
  4. 1,654 ha Phu Luang fire, 8 April 2026 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 1,719 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 946 ha Nam Nao fire, 8 April 2026 1.7% of the municipality · 1,899 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 1,352 ha Nong Hin fire, March 2025 2.4% of the municipality · 1,554 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 1,196 ha Phu Luang fire, 3 April 2023 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 1,189 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 2,059 ha Phu Luang fire, 1 April 2023 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 2,047 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 406 ha Phu Luang fire, 31 March 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,117 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 1,473 ha Phu Luang fire, 23 March 2023 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 2,445 ha in total · 16 days
  11. 1,101 ha Phu Luang fire, 20 March 2023 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 1,095 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 153 ha Lom Kao fire, March 2023 0.3% of the municipality · 1,440 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 754 ha Lom Kao fire, February 2021 1.3% of the municipality · 7,064 ha in total · 10 days
  14. 1,230 ha Phu Luang fire, 15 February 2020 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,223 ha in total · 13 days
  15. 794 ha Lom Kao fire, February 2020 1.4% of the municipality · 2,378 ha in total · 13 days
  16. 1,026 ha Phu Luang fire, 13 February 2020 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,020 ha in total · 10 days
  17. 85 ha Nam Nao fire, 9 February 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 1,371 ha in total · 10 days
  18. 2,208 ha Phu Luang fire, 7 February 2020 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 2,196 ha in total · 10 days
  19. 2,168 ha Phu Luang fire, March 2019 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 2,358 ha in total · 9 days
  20. 1,136 ha Phu Luang fire, April 2016 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 1,165 ha in total · 15 days
  21. 498 ha Lom Kao fire, 6 April 2016 0.9% of the municipality · 1,774 ha in total · 6 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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