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Wildfires in Thoeng เทิง

Thoeng, Thailand, has had 19 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 18,734 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 22% 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 25 Very low 31° · 56 % · 16 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 72 % · 27 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 73 % · 21 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 66 % · 20 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 61 % · 18 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 56 % · 21 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 63 % · 23 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 67 % · 23 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

18,734
hectares burned
22 %
of its area
19
fires
837
km²

How many times has Thoeng burned?

Thoeng has burned 19 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Thoeng fire, April 2026, with 1,346 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 18,734 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 13,408 hectares, 16 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 5× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 4× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 3× 26
19
fires
6
years with fire
18,734
cumulative ha
13,408
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 Thoeng

  1. 1,346 ha Thoeng fire, April 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,188 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 2,572 ha Phu Sang fire, March 2026 3.1% of the municipality · 13,685 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 1 ha Chun fire, 2 March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,635 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 1,284 ha Thoeng fire, April 2023 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,329 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 25 ha Wiang Chai fire, April 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,738 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 2,889 ha Thoeng fire, March 2023 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 2,872 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 408 ha Wiang Chai fire, 22 March 2023 0.5% of the municipality · 1,805 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 1,215 ha Khun Tan fire, March 2020 1.4% of the municipality · 5,519 ha in total · 15 days
  9. 2,238 ha Thoeng fire, March 2020 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 3,096 ha in total · 12 days
  10. 1,049 ha Chun fire, December 2019 1.2% of the municipality · 1,197 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 457 ha Thoeng fire, 19 April 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,253 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 500 ha Thoeng fire, 7 April 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,172 ha in total · 8 days
  13. 1,065 ha Thoeng fire, 21 March 2019 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,058 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 1,166 ha Thoeng fire, 4 March 2019 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,958 ha in total · 10 days
  15. 592 ha Pa Daet fire, March 2017 0.7% of the municipality · 3,184 ha in total · 12 days
  16. 762 ha Khun Tan fire, 12 April 2016 0.9% of the municipality · 1,926 ha in total · 7 days
  17. 1 ha Khun Tan fire, 12 April 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,032 ha in total · 7 days
  18. 18 ha Chun fire, March 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,261 ha in total · 4 days
  19. 1,148 ha Thoeng fire, March 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,142 ha in total · 7 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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