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Wildfires in Pong ปง

Pong, Thailand, has had 48 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 82,569 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 49% 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 27 Very low 30° · 68 % · 19 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 76 % · 20 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 58 % · 14 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 62 % · 16 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 62 % · 19 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 64 % · 18 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 29° · 78 % · 23 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 63 % · 19 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

82,569
hectares burned
49 %
of its area
48
fires
1,695
km²

How many times has Pong burned?

Pong has burned 48 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Pong fire, May 2026, with 404 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 8× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 7× 19
  5. 5× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 6× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 19× 26
48
fires
8
years with fire
82,569
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 Pong

  1. 404 ha Pong fire, May 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,022 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 141 ha Mueang Nan fire, 13 April 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 1,398 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 942 ha Pong fire, 13 April 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,048 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 1,035 ha Pong fire, 8 April 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,030 ha in total · 12 days
  5. 309 ha Mueang Nan fire, 8 April 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 1,339 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 3,358 ha Pong fire, 5 April 2026 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 3,338 ha in total · 18 days
  7. 5,117 ha Pong fire, 4 April 2026 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 5,089 ha in total · 18 days
  8. 14,818 ha Pong fire, 2 April 2026 where it started 8.7% of the municipality · 15,350 ha in total · 20 days
  9. 7 ha Chun fire, April 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,583 ha in total · 16 days
  10. 200 ha Chun fire, 27 March 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 1,746 ha in total · 13 days
  11. 1,166 ha Pong fire, 24 March 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,159 ha in total · 11 days
  12. 1,159 ha Pong fire, 24 March 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,153 ha in total · 9 days
  13. 1,075 ha Pong fire, 23 March 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,069 ha in total · 8 days
  14. 2,116 ha Pong fire, 23 March 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,106 ha in total · 15 days
  15. 545 ha Chiang Kham fire, 22 March 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 2,342 ha in total · 10 days
  16. 4,718 ha Pong fire, 22 March 2026 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 4,696 ha in total · 20 days
  17. 3,422 ha Pong fire, 18 March 2026 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 3,657 ha in total · 21 days
  18. 2,683 ha Pong fire, 1 March 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,668 ha in total · 10 days
  19. 1,394 ha Pong fire, 1 March 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,692 ha in total · 8 days
  20. 3,406 ha Pong fire, March 2025 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 3,390 ha in total · 13 days
  21. 1,007 ha Chiang Kham fire, March 2024 0.6% of the municipality · 1,703 ha in total · 12 days
  22. 1,401 ha Pong fire, 10 April 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,394 ha in total · 8 days
  23. 1,471 ha Pong fire, 6 April 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,462 ha in total · 16 days
  24. 1,544 ha Pong fire, 4 April 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,536 ha in total · 18 days
  25. 1,220 ha Pong fire, 25 March 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,212 ha in total · 7 days
  26. 637 ha Pong fire, 23 March 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,557 ha in total · 6 days
  27. 353 ha Chiang Kham fire, 21 March 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 1,682 ha in total · 17 days
  28. 1,196 ha Pong fire, February 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,190 ha in total · 5 days
  29. 66 ha Song Khwae fire, 1 April 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,048 ha in total · 7 days
  30. 565 ha Pong fire, 27 March 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,239 ha in total · 8 days
  31. 2,115 ha Pong fire, 23 March 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,102 ha in total · 14 days
  32. 1,883 ha Pong fire, 23 March 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,283 ha in total · 15 days
  33. 134 ha Song Khwae fire, 18 March 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 1,005 ha in total · 6 days
  34. 2,311 ha Pong fire, 15 April 2019 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,371 ha in total · 18 days
  35. 1,746 ha Pong fire, 5 April 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,737 ha in total · 8 days
  36. 3,309 ha Pong fire, 1 April 2019 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 3,294 ha in total · 16 days
  37. 1,277 ha Pong fire, March 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,269 ha in total · 4 days
  38. 765 ha Song Khwae fire, March 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 1,532 ha in total · 4 days
  39. 89 ha Dok Khamtai fire, 6 March 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,513 ha in total · 11 days
  40. 354 ha Chiang Kham fire, 2 March 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 1,262 ha in total · 10 days
  41. 490 ha Chiang Kham fire, April 2016 0.3% of the municipality · 1,178 ha in total · 5 days
  42. 1,343 ha Pong fire, 12 April 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,614 ha in total · 7 days
  43. 1,165 ha Pong fire, 9 April 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,158 ha in total · 11 days
  44. 2,597 ha Pong fire, 6 April 2016 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,583 ha in total · 12 days
  45. 3,397 ha Pong fire, 5 April 2016 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 3,442 ha in total · 15 days
  46. 19 ha Chiang Muan fire, April 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,409 ha in total · 6 days
  47. 1,119 ha Pong fire, March 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,114 ha in total · 13 days
  48. 983 ha Chiang Kham fire, March 2016 0.6% of the municipality · 1,312 ha in total · 12 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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