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Wildfires in Phu Ruea ภูเรือ

Phu Ruea, Thailand, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 15,622 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 23% 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. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 65 % · 19 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 28° · 67 % · 25 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 27° · 69 % · 26 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 28° · 66 % · 23 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Very low 28° · 75 % · 20 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very low 27° · 71 % · 25 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 27° · 65 % · 36 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 26° · 76 % · 35 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

15,622
hectares burned
23 %
of its area
12
fires
681
km²

How many times has Phu Ruea burned?

Phu Ruea has burned 12 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2019, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Phu Ruea fire, 3 April 2026, with 6,341 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 15,622 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 12,247 hectares, 18 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 3× 26
12
fires
4
years with fire
15,622
cumulative ha
12,247
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 Ruea

  1. 6,341 ha Phu Ruea fire, 3 April 2026 where it started 9.3% of the municipality · 6,306 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 1,940 ha Phu Ruea fire, 2 April 2026 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 3,299 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 908 ha Mueang Loei fire, March 2026 1.3% of the municipality · 2,071 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 412 ha Wang Saphung fire, April 2023 0.6% of the municipality · 1,447 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 586 ha Wang Saphung fire, March 2023 0.9% of the municipality · 1,835 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 314 ha Wang Saphung fire, 11 March 2019 0.5% of the municipality · 1,068 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 590 ha Wang Saphung fire, 11 March 2019 0.9% of the municipality · 2,520 ha in total · 12 days
  8. 748 ha Wang Saphung fire, 7 March 2019 1.1% of the municipality · 1,093 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 476 ha Wang Saphung fire, April 2016 0.7% of the municipality · 1,260 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 1,397 ha Phu Ruea fire, March 2016 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 1,389 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 1,715 ha Wang Saphung fire, 16 March 2016 2.5% of the municipality · 3,095 ha in total · 9 days
  12. 195 ha Mueang Loei fire, March 2016 0.3% of the municipality · 1,000 ha in total · 9 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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