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Wildfires in Wang Thong วังทอง

Wang Thong, Thailand, has had 17 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 16,780 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.8% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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. Tue 27 Very low 32° · 55 % · 23 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 33° · 46 % · 22 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 64 % · 24 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 74 % · 21 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 77 % · 20 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 71 % · 17 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 77 % · 25 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 31° · 66 % · 18 km/h
  9. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 83 % · 24 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

16,780
hectares burned
9.8 %
of its area
17
fires
1,713
km²

How many times has Wang Thong burned?

Wang Thong has burned 17 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Wang Thong fire, 17 April 2026, with 463 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 16,780 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 14,749 hectares, 8.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 7× 26
17
fires
8
years with fire
16,780
cumulative ha
14,749
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 Thong

  1. 463 ha Wang Thong fire, 17 April 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,293 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 1,644 ha Wang Thong fire, 9 April 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,638 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 1,042 ha Wang Thong fire, 8 April 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,036 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 838 ha Nakhon Thai fire, 27 March 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 3,725 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 2,280 ha Wang Thong fire, 14 March 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,269 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 1,003 ha Wang Thong fire, 1 March 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,086 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 26 ha Nakhon Thai fire, 1 March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,594 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 1,130 ha Wang Thong fire, February 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,666 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 308 ha Noen Maprang fire, March 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 1,137 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 10 ha Mueang Phitsanulok fire, December 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,158 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 1,282 ha Wang Thong fire, April 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,275 ha in total · 13 days
  12. 1,145 ha Wang Thong fire, 9 March 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,139 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 802 ha Wang Thong fire, 5 March 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,270 ha in total · 11 days
  14. 1,236 ha Wang Thong fire, 3 March 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,242 ha in total · 13 days
  15. 939 ha Nakhon Thai fire, 16 March 2018 0.6% of the municipality · 1,208 ha in total · 8 days
  16. 2,222 ha Wang Thong fire, March 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,210 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 407 ha Noen Maprang fire, February 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 1,353 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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