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Wildfires in Thung Chang ทุ่งช้าง

Thung Chang, Thailand, has had 23 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 49,310 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 69% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Sat 14 Very low 25° · 57 % · 20 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Very low 27° · 62 % · 21 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very low 27° · 60 % · 21 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 28° · 57 % · 18 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 28° · 71 % · 22 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low 26° · 79 % · 21 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 26° · 69 % · 21 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low 26° · 67 % · 22 km/h

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Smoke today in Thung Chang: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

49,310
hectares burned
69 %
of its area
23
fires
712
km²

How many times has Thung Chang burned?

Thung Chang has burned 23 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Thung Chang fire, 14 April 2026, with 2,658 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 49,310 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 27,602 hectares, 39 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 5× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 5× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 5× 26
23
fires
7
years with fire
49,310
cumulative ha
27,602
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 Thung Chang

  1. 2,658 ha Thung Chang fire, 14 April 2026 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 2,645 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 2,288 ha Thung Chang fire, 13 April 2026 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 3,751 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 1,109 ha Thung Chang fire, 9 April 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,185 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 1,444 ha Thung Chang fire, 8 April 2026 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 1,437 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 130 ha Chaloem Phra Kiat fire, March 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 3,258 ha in total · 21 days
  6. 1,205 ha Thung Chang fire, April 2023 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,199 ha in total · 19 days
  7. 3,388 ha Thung Chang fire, March 2023 where it started 4.8% of the municipality · 5,207 ha in total · 21 days
  8. 2,329 ha Chaloem Phra Kiat fire, 21 March 2023 3.3% of the municipality · 4,316 ha in total · 24 days
  9. 8,720 ha Song Khwae fire, March 2023 12% of the municipality · 11,034 ha in total · 28 days
  10. 10 ha Chaloem Phra Kiat fire, 17 March 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 2,056 ha in total · 12 days
  11. 1,504 ha Thung Chang fire, 28 March 2020 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 2,847 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 1,209 ha Thung Chang fire, 26 March 2020 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,293 ha in total · 11 days
  13. 5,484 ha Thung Chang fire, 22 March 2020 where it started 7.7% of the municipality · 6,282 ha in total · 18 days
  14. 6,199 ha Thung Chang fire, 21 March 2020 where it started 8.7% of the municipality · 9,533 ha in total · 23 days
  15. 472 ha Song Khwae fire, 10 March 2020 0.7% of the municipality · 1,074 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 944 ha Thung Chang fire, 10 April 2019 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,090 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 1,025 ha Thung Chang fire, 1 April 2019 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,076 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 1,879 ha Thung Chang fire, April 2018 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 1,909 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 2,005 ha Thung Chang fire, March 2017 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 1,995 ha in total · 12 days
  20. 50 ha Chaloem Phra Kiat fire, March 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 1,568 ha in total · 9 days
  21. 1,093 ha Thung Chang fire, April 2016 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,088 ha in total · 5 days
  22. 1,412 ha Thung Chang fire, 30 March 2016 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 1,476 ha in total · 10 days
  23. 2,753 ha Thung Chang fire, 16 March 2016 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 2,740 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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