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Wildfires in Wang Chin วังชิ้น

Wang Chin, Thailand, has had 46 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 43,999 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 44% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 51 % · 19 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Low 32° · 55 % · 20 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low 31° · 78 % · 25 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 28° · 85 % · 19 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 30° · 70 % · 23 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 30° · 65 % · 38 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 28° · 60 % · 28 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Very low 28° · 66 % · 22 km/h
  9. Thu 12 Very low 25° · 70 % · 19 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 Wang Chin: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

43,999
hectares burned
44 %
of its area
46
fires
995
km²

How many times has Wang Chin burned?

Wang Chin has burned 46 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Wang Chin fire, 17 April 2026, with 614 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 43,999 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 31,781 hectares, 32 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 7× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 8× 19
  5. 6× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 4× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 18× 26
46
fires
8
years with fire
43,999
cumulative ha
31,781
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 Chin

  1. 614 ha Wang Chin fire, 17 April 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,200 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 60 ha Sop Prap fire, 15 April 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 1,199 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 2,037 ha Mae Tha fire, 14 April 2026 2.0% of the municipality · 5,078 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 7 ha Den Chai fire, April 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,056 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 1,219 ha Wang Chin fire, 12 April 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,890 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 1,820 ha Wang Chin fire, 9 April 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,810 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 271 ha Mae Tha fire, 7 April 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 1,809 ha in total · 12 days
  8. 406 ha Sop Prap fire, 6 April 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 1,794 ha in total · 12 days
  9. 1,088 ha Wang Chin fire, 6 April 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,083 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 323 ha Wang Chin fire, 6 April 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,235 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 22 ha Sop Prap fire, 4 April 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,358 ha in total · 7 days
  12. 564 ha Wang Chin fire, 26 March 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,060 ha in total · 22 days
  13. 1,061 ha Wang Chin fire, 23 March 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,055 ha in total · 15 days
  14. 1,102 ha Wang Chin fire, 23 March 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,149 ha in total · 7 days
  15. 64 ha Si Satchanalai fire, 18 March 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 1,034 ha in total · 13 days
  16. 2,831 ha Thoen fire, 18 March 2026 2.8% of the municipality · 13,449 ha in total · 23 days
  17. 1,099 ha Wang Chin fire, 16 March 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,139 ha in total · 5 days
  18. 356 ha Long fire, 28 February 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 1,068 ha in total · 8 days
  19. 1 ha Sop Prap fire, April 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 1,142 ha in total · 6 days
  20. 113 ha Sop Prap fire, 24 March 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 1,188 ha in total · 9 days
  21. 1,916 ha Sop Prap fire, 21 March 2023 1.9% of the municipality · 2,354 ha in total · 15 days
  22. 3,244 ha Wang Chin fire, 20 March 2023 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 3,226 ha in total · 11 days
  23. 415 ha Wang Chin fire, 15 March 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,573 ha in total · 12 days
  24. 1,055 ha Wang Chin fire, April 2022 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,049 ha in total · 9 days
  25. 1,252 ha Wang Chin fire, 27 March 2020 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,377 ha in total · 13 days
  26. 287 ha Si Satchanalai fire, 27 March 2020 0.3% of the municipality · 2,864 ha in total · 12 days
  27. 1,279 ha Wang Chin fire, 22 March 2020 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,355 ha in total · 8 days
  28. 482 ha Thoen fire, 7 March 2020 0.5% of the municipality · 1,854 ha in total · 6 days
  29. 0 ha Sop Prap fire, February 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,113 ha in total · 4 days
  30. 12 ha Sop Prap fire, January 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,026 ha in total · 6 days
  31. 1,131 ha Wang Chin fire, 27 April 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,124 ha in total · 9 days
  32. 1,359 ha Wang Chin fire, 26 April 2019 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,398 ha in total · 8 days
  33. 2,513 ha Wang Chin fire, 26 April 2019 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 2,906 ha in total · 11 days
  34. 406 ha Si Satchanalai fire, 17 April 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 1,112 ha in total · 6 days
  35. 1,810 ha Si Satchanalai fire, 8 April 2019 1.8% of the municipality · 5,430 ha in total · 21 days
  36. 1,400 ha Wang Chin fire, March 2019 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,393 ha in total · 8 days
  37. 1 ha Sop Prap fire, March 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,274 ha in total · 11 days
  38. 0 ha Den Chai fire, February 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,012 ha in total · 11 days
  39. 1,965 ha Wang Chin fire, March 2017 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 1,955 ha in total · 7 days
  40. 382 ha Si Satchanalai fire, 18 April 2016 0.4% of the municipality · 1,010 ha in total · 10 days
  41. 1,676 ha Wang Chin fire, April 2016 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,199 ha in total · 19 days
  42. 2,250 ha Wang Chin fire, 21 March 2016 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 2,238 ha in total · 12 days
  43. 1,262 ha Sop Prap fire, 16 March 2016 1.3% of the municipality · 2,011 ha in total · 16 days
  44. 142 ha Wang Chin fire, 6 March 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,214 ha in total · 22 days
  45. 2,238 ha Wang Chin fire, 6 March 2016 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,225 ha in total · 23 days
  46. 462 ha Wang Chin fire, February 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,233 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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