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Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC

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Fire history, 2012–2025

Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-21

Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 366,940 km² of Thailand at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 104,620 km², ranking 26th of 200 countries.

104,620 km²detected in an average year
2016busiest year, 142,980 km²
2022quietest year, 44,110 km²
Marchpeak month, 36% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 106,480 km2'122013: 125,320 km2'132014: 127,140 km2'142015: 124,910 km2'152016: 142,980 km2'162017: 90,270 km2'172018: 83,260 km2'182019: 139,230 km2'192020: 131,940 km2'202021: 78,450 km2'212022: 44,110 km2'222023: 108,340 km2'232024: 93,220 km2'242025: 69,080 km2'25142,980 km2

Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.

The busiest year was 2016, with 142,980 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 44,110 km². The 2021–2025 average is 37% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 10%JFebruary: 23%FMarch: 36%MApril: 18%AMay: 3.6%MJune: 0.4%JJuly: 0.3%JAugust: 0.4%ASeptember: 0.3%SOctober: 0.5%ONovember: 1.6%NDecember: 5.6%D36%

Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.

February, March and April together hold 77% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 6 March 2014, with detections in 6,422 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 366,940 km² with at least one detection, 60% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year84,20023%
2 years61,74017%
3 to 5 years121,97033%
6 to 10 years88,69024%
11 years or more10,3402.8%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 18.25, 97.75 and holds 1.7% of the country's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
2012106,480126,448
2013125,320150,402
2014127,140151,767
2015124,910146,112
2016142,980172,789
201790,270100,486
201883,26091,424
2019139,230170,981
2020131,940158,401
202178,45085,813
202244,11045,044
2023108,340130,721
202493,220105,062
202569,08075,700

Nearby countries

Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.

Nearby countries

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What is actually burning
What is actually burningThe ESA WorldCover class under every detection, read at 10 m. Forest, cropland, shrub or built-up, named rather than guessed.
Has this ground burned before
Has this ground burned beforeEvery fire is checked against an archive back to 2012, which answers with the years this same ground burned.
Alerts that stay quiet
Alerts that stay quietA fire must miss two passes before we say it stopped and grow by more than half again before we say it spread. Nothing is said twice.