Thread: Over 2,201 Fire Hotspots Reported Throughout Northern Thailand

CHIANG RAI: The Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency reports that a total of 2,201 fire hotspots were found throughout the North on Tuesday, the majority of them in conservation forests. 1,388 hotspots were located in the higher part of the northern region and 813 in the lower North, out of the total.


The most hotspots were in the provinces of Tak (495), Uttaradit (237), Nan (212), Phrae (190), and Lampang (181). There were 25 agricultural land reform areas, 783 reserved forests, and 1,214 conservation forests.

From December 1 and February 28 of this year, there were 31,971 hotspots combined in Northern Thailand, compared to 13,351 in 2022 and 33,430 in 2021. The hotspots play a significant role in increasing PM2.
In most northern provinces, the government-established safe level of 50 microgrammes per cubic meter has been exceeded by 5 levels.


The Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (Gistda) said on its Facebook page on Wednesday that the satellite Suomi NPP discovered 3,768 hotspots nationwide on February 28, the most since January 1.

Kanchanaburi had the most hotspots (577), Tak had the most (495), Uttaradit had the most (237), Nan had the most (212), and Phrae had the least (190).


Thailand, Laos (3,370), Burma (2,809), Cambodia (2,758), and Vietnam were the countries with the most hotspots in the region (732). According to Gistda, on February 28 there were the most hotspots in Thailand in agricultural areas (271), community areas (271), agricultural land reform areas (219), conversation forests (1,937), national forest reserves (1,043), and along highways (18).


The five northern provinces with the largest number of hotspots, according to hotspot data from Gistda on February 28, are Tak (495), Uttaradit (237), Nan (212), Phrae (190), and Lampang (181). (Gistda and the Region 3 Center for the Prevention and Mitigation of Air Pollution)


According to a report released on Wednesday by the Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (Gistda), the Suomi NPP satellite discovered 3,768 hotspots nationwide on February 28.

Over 2,201 Fire Hotspots Reported Throughout Northern Thailand

Thanks Kitty

Brief scan of AQ maps seems C Mai is 10 times the limit and most of Lanna highest on planet, can this be right

see zoomable map

World's Air Pollution: Real-time Air Quality Index

It’s pretty bad. I wrestled the trash out this morning and came back inside with watery eyes. My days are spent indoors with the air purifier running on high.

Originally Posted by misskit

It’s pretty bad. I wrestled the trash out this morning and came back inside with watery eyes. My days are spent indoors with the air purifier running on high.

Yes, it's pretty shit.

Even those who spend all their time on social media telling people how it "never affects them" and they "don't know what people are complaining about" have been conspicuous by their absence.

If they took this danger to health seriously then they would decimate the farmers responsible : shoot one in ten and hang their corpse from a tree for the birds to peck at.

The Health minister Anutin is of course too busy hunting down vapers to deal with this annual fucking problem that kills people every fucking year.

What a truly fucked up little country this place is.

Originally Posted by misskit

It’s pretty bad. I wrestled the trash out this morning and came back inside with watery eyes. My days are spent indoors with the air purifier running on high.

it won't be long until you'll be taking snapshots of tourists like these on Loi Kroh

Talk about fire hot spots.
Today we went to a very nice resort like restaurant , you know the kind with the lake in the middle and hots all around.
We sat at the covered area because it had proper tables and chairs. The huts were the kind that you sit on the floor with pillows and the way my back is, if I sat on the floor, you would need a crane to get me up
Anyway, on of the girls bringing the food was bringing one of these fire things they ptr under the Tom Young soup to keep it warm, she tripped the fire thing fell in a small garbage bin. The garbage bin went on fire, by the time they found something to put the fire out, the flames got into the thatched roof huts, the wind carried the flames to the next hut roof, and before anyone could do anything the whole place was on fire.
The pictures are screen shot of some video my wife took.

I hoped you got fed somewhere after the Barbie Queue, luckily rather like evila Argentinian dictators a Thatcher will come to the rescue