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Wildfires in Wang Chao วังเจ้า

Wang Chao, Thailand, has had 14 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 19,004 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 26% 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. Sat 31 Very low 26° · 71 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 27° · 70 % · 19 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 26° · 72 % · 26 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 25° · 77 % · 31 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 26° · 64 % · 26 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 26° · 62 % · 28 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 25° · 80 % · 31 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 23° · 91 % · 40 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

19,004
hectares burned
26 %
of its area
14
fires
730
km²

How many times has Wang Chao burned?

Wang Chao has burned 14 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Wang Chao fire, April 2026, with 1,077 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 19,004 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 15,239 hectares, 21 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10.   25
  11. 4× 26
14
fires
7
years with fire
19,004
cumulative ha
15,239
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 Wang Chao

  1. 1,077 ha Wang Chao fire, April 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,071 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,284 ha Wang Chao fire, 23 March 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,312 ha in total · 18 days
  3. 5,705 ha Wang Chao fire, 20 March 2026 where it started 7.8% of the municipality · 50,877 ha in total · 33 days
  4. 3 ha Mueang Tak fire, 13 February 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,431 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 1,220 ha Wang Chao fire, March 2024 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,214 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 1 ha Mueang Tak fire, 1 March 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 1,013 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 984 ha Wang Chao fire, February 2024 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,015 ha in total · 13 days
  8. 833 ha Mueang Tak fire, 26 March 2023 1.1% of the municipality · 1,702 ha in total · 12 days
  9. 427 ha Kosamphi Nakhon fire, March 2023 0.6% of the municipality · 3,623 ha in total · 17 days
  10. 1,457 ha Wang Chao fire, February 2023 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 1,684 ha in total · 12 days
  11. 2,682 ha Wang Chao fire, February 2021 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 3,737 ha in total · 10 days
  12. 1,266 ha Phop Phra fire, 8 March 2020 1.7% of the municipality · 3,897 ha in total · 12 days
  13. 2,065 ha Wang Chao fire, March 2018 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 2,053 ha in total · 6 days
  14. 0 ha Mueang Tak fire, 10 April 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,155 ha in total · 8 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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