Fischenthal is a village and a municipality in the district of Hinwil in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.

[3] Fischenthal is situated in the upper Töss Valley and is the largest municipality, in terms of land area, in the canton of Zurich.

Of the rest of the land, 4% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (1.3%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).

As of 2007[update] 2.9% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction.

[5] In 2014, Fischenthal made regional news because it was forced to spend 87% of its fiscal budget on social support, mostly due to a single family which had recently moved to the village and which consumed a quarter of the municipality's budget or half a million francs in support and special education programs.

In the 2000 census[update], religion was broken down into several smaller categories.

[5] The historical population is given in the following table:[3] Road 16, the Tösstalstrasse, passes through the municipalities three main villages of Steg, Fischenthal and Gibswil.