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Wildfires in Samoeng สะเมิง

Samoeng, Thailand, has had 23 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 82,628 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 82% 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 8 Very low 23° · 79 % · 37 km/h
  2. Mon 9 Very low 23° · 71 % · 42 km/h
  3. Tue 10 Very low 22° · 68 % · 39 km/h
  4. Wed 11 Very low 18° · 85 % · 20 km/h
  5. Thu 12 Very low 22° · 74 % · 31 km/h
  6. Fri 13 Very low 25° · 58 % · 21 km/h
  7. Sat 14 Very low 27° · 50 % · 18 km/h
  8. Sun 15 Very low 27° · 48 % · 25 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Samoeng: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

82,628
hectares burned
82 %
of its area
23
fires
1,013
km²

How many times has Samoeng burned?

Samoeng has burned 23 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Samoeng fire, 24 March 2026, with 357 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 82,628 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 41,156 hectares, 41 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 5× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 8× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11. 3× 26
23
fires
6
years with fire
82,628
cumulative ha
41,156
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 Samoeng

  1. 357 ha Samoeng fire, 24 March 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,901 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 1,135 ha Samoeng fire, 23 March 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,128 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 24,686 ha Samoeng fire, 21 March 2026 where it started 24% of the municipality · 47,840 ha in total · 35 days
  4. 4,432 ha Samoeng fire, 24 March 2024 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 4,409 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 1,146 ha Samoeng fire, 18 March 2024 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,140 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 2,234 ha Samoeng fire, 24 March 2023 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,223 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 2,559 ha Samoeng fire, 23 March 2023 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 2,431 ha in total · 14 days
  8. 587 ha Hang Dong fire, 21 March 2023 0.6% of the municipality · 1,195 ha in total · 17 days
  9. 32 ha Galyani Vadhana fire, April 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,224 ha in total · 14 days
  10. 658 ha Mae Chaem fire, 22 March 2020 0.6% of the municipality · 7,903 ha in total · 22 days
  11. 9,325 ha Samoeng fire, 21 March 2020 where it started 9.2% of the municipality · 9,096 ha in total · 18 days
  12. 3,305 ha Samoeng fire, 17 March 2020 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 3,287 ha in total · 18 days
  13. 270 ha Pai fire, 16 March 2020 0.3% of the municipality · 2,700 ha in total · 23 days
  14. 9,038 ha Samoeng fire, 14 March 2020 where it started 8.9% of the municipality · 9,042 ha in total · 26 days
  15. 1,454 ha Samoeng fire, 11 March 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,463 ha in total · 9 days
  16. 1,116 ha Samoeng fire, 11 March 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,109 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 1,308 ha Samoeng fire, 23 March 2019 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,301 ha in total · 9 days
  18. 3,093 ha Samoeng fire, 17 March 2019 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 3,077 ha in total · 19 days
  19. 492 ha Mae Wang fire, May 2016 0.5% of the municipality · 1,477 ha in total · 7 days
  20. 536 ha Mae Wang fire, 12 April 2016 0.5% of the municipality · 1,014 ha in total · 17 days
  21. 2,118 ha Samoeng fire, 10 April 2016 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 2,106 ha in total · 18 days
  22. 509 ha Samoeng fire, 2 April 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,898 ha in total · 19 days
  23. 12,237 ha Hang Dong fire, March 2016 12% of the municipality · 12,864 ha in total · 29 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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