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Wildfires in Umphang อุ้มผาง

Umphang, Thailand, has had 45 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 69,035 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 14% 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. Sun 25 Very low 30° · 56 % · 26 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 57 % · 33 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 27° · 65 % · 49 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 58 % · 51 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 61 % · 46 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 62 % · 42 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 64 % · 39 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 28° · 65 % · 21 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

69,035
hectares burned
14 %
of its area
45
fires
4,860
km²

How many times has Umphang burned?

Umphang has burned 45 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Umphang fire, 12 April 2026, with 1,056 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 13× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 19× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 5× 24
  10.   25
  11. 3× 26
45
fires
8
years with fire
69,035
cumulative ha
12 Apr 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 Umphang

  1. 1,056 ha Umphang fire, 12 April 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,051 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 1,512 ha Umphang fire, 11 April 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,504 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 366 ha Sangkhla Buri fire, 22 March 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 1,250 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 1,260 ha Umphang fire, 31 March 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,255 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 1,174 ha Umphang fire, 30 March 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,170 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 1,082 ha Umphang fire, 30 March 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,076 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 1,993 ha Umphang fire, 11 March 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,985 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 407 ha Sangkhla Buri fire, 11 March 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 1,089 ha in total · 13 days
  9. 1,121 ha Umphang fire, February 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,116 ha in total · 14 days
  10. 1,060 ha Umphang fire, 5 April 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,053 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 1,159 ha Sangkhla Buri fire, April 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 1,785 ha in total · 22 days
  12. 1,143 ha Umphang fire, 1 April 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,136 ha in total · 13 days
  13. 3,212 ha Umphang fire, 1 April 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,195 ha in total · 13 days
  14. 1,121 ha Umphang fire, 28 March 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,113 ha in total · 13 days
  15. 1,088 ha Umphang fire, 28 March 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,082 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 2,019 ha Umphang fire, 23 March 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,657 ha in total · 20 days
  17. 3,097 ha Umphang fire, 22 March 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,082 ha in total · 23 days
  18. 2,654 ha Umphang fire, 21 March 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,640 ha in total · 24 days
  19. 1,904 ha Umphang fire, 21 March 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,894 ha in total · 14 days
  20. 1,938 ha Umphang fire, 20 March 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,931 ha in total · 12 days
  21. 1,411 ha Umphang fire, 18 March 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,401 ha in total · 16 days
  22. 3,903 ha Umphang fire, 18 March 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,884 ha in total · 27 days
  23. 1,072 ha Umphang fire, 18 March 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,067 ha in total · 16 days
  24. 452 ha Khlong Lan fire, 13 March 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 12,184 ha in total · 30 days
  25. 154 ha Khlong Lan fire, 4 March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 3,813 ha in total · 16 days
  26. 1,695 ha Umphang fire, 1 March 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,430 ha in total · 23 days
  27. 8,518 ha Ban Rai fire, 26 February 2020 1.8% of the municipality · 65,377 ha in total · 48 days
  28. 1,501 ha Umphang fire, February 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,493 ha in total · 12 days
  29. 1,808 ha Umphang fire, March 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,800 ha in total · 8 days
  30. 10 ha Ban Rai fire, 12 February 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 64,381 ha in total · 40 days
  31. 807 ha Umphang fire, March 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,284 ha in total · 6 days
  32. 1,313 ha Umphang fire, March 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,304 ha in total · 3 days
  33. 744 ha Sangkhla Buri fire, April 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 1,351 ha in total · 10 days
  34. 1,658 ha Umphang fire, 5 April 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,648 ha in total · 15 days
  35. 2,017 ha Umphang fire, 1 April 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,001 ha in total · 17 days
  36. 1,394 ha Umphang fire, 20 March 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,385 ha in total · 9 days
  37. 1,105 ha Umphang fire, 16 March 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,101 ha in total · 7 days
  38. 708 ha Umphang fire, 15 March 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,084 ha in total · 8 days
  39. 3,320 ha Umphang fire, 10 March 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,302 ha in total · 14 days
  40. 1,078 ha Umphang fire, 8 March 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,071 ha in total · 14 days
  41. 2,458 ha Umphang fire, 8 March 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,445 ha in total · 16 days
  42. 187 ha Khlong Lan fire, 7 March 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 13,720 ha in total · 17 days
  43. 22 ha Thong Pha Phum fire, 4 March 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,956 ha in total · 15 days
  44. 42 ha Ban Rai fire, 23 February 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 36,669 ha in total · 32 days
  45. 1,291 ha Umphang fire, February 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,284 ha in total · 3 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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