Best use for travel intelligence
For travel decisions, wildfire and hotspot layers are strongest for smoke-season caution, forest or park travel, rural-road risk, and understanding why a place may feel unsafe even without an ordinary crime signal.
Data cluster
Thailand Wildfire and Hotspot Data.
Wildfire, hotspot, burned-area, smoke-risk, and protected-area fire layers for Thailand safety and seasonal risk pages.
What this changes for travelers
- Northern and rural risk: Wildfire and hotspot layers explain why some seasons or protected areas deserve extra caution.
- Smoke-season support: Useful alongside AQI when the question is whether outdoor or overland travel still feels wise.
- Protected-area context: Adds fire-awareness value beyond city-only safety pages.
Best sources to start with
- Best public hotspot layer: GISTDA disaster fire for hotspot and burned-area context.
- Best protected-area wildfire layer: DNP wildfire data for forest-fire and protected-area context.
- Best global fire backup: NASA FIRMS for broader satellite fire detection and historical validation.
- Best developer starting point: Store hotspot time, coordinates, confidence, protected-area context, and burned-area outputs separately, and never treat hotspots as fire-engine dispatch records.
2 of 5 sources look official or agency-backed.
1 sources expose API, feed, CKAN/DataStore, JSON, XML, or similar machine-readable access.
4 sources have live, hourly, event-driven, warning, or frequent update language.
Keep hotspots, burned-area products, suppression statistics, and smoke or travel interpretation distinct, because a hotspot is not the same thing as an active rescue incident.
Last checked and source confidence
Last checked: 2026-05-11.
Source confidence: This cluster is strongest when several sources describe the same traveler problem from different angles: official context, machine-readable feeds, and slower fallback documentation.
Geospatial and satellite
DNP wildfire data
Department of National Parks wildfire and hotspot geospatial layer with fire-related overlays and protected-area wildfire context. Useful for smoke, forest-fire, and conservation-area safety overlays.
Public geospatial dashboard and hotspot layers Water and hydrologyPCD marine water quality
Primary official marine/coastal quality layer for Thailand MWQI and sampling-round context. Good for coastal status and pollution hotspots, not for same-day beach bacteria guarantees.
PCD marine/coastal water-quality pages, MWQI summaries, and linked statistics/publications Weather, environment, and disastersASMC regional haze and hotspot portal
Regional haze and hotspot context for burning-season pages, cross-border smoke interpretation, satellite fire detections, rainfall, wind, and haze-map overlays. Hotspots are possible active fires and can be missed or falsely detected; use as regional context, not station-level PM2.5 proof.
Public ASEAN haze GIS portal, hotspot information pages, satellite overlays, haze maps, and WIS 2.0 pilot catalog context Weather, environment, and disastersGISTDA disaster fire
GISTDA fire and disaster platform for hotspot, fire, burned-area, and related geospatial context. Useful for wildfire and public-safety risk overlays, not for live fire-engine dispatch.
Public disaster platform dashboard and geospatial fire layers Weather, environment, and disastersNASA FIRMS
MODIS/VIIRS fire and thermal anomaly data filterable to Thailand.
API, CSV, WMS