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Wildfires in Laos

1,452 fires over 2,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 6,422,933 hectares burned across 117 districts.

Only fires of 2,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the entry totals, but they are in the GWIS yearly series.

The season, week by week

Copernicus GWIS

Laos, at this point in the year: 2,642,171 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 3,670,199.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–20253,634,979 ha

Worst year2023 6,616,216 ha

With a page here1,452 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	6,496	2,642,171	GWIS
2025	5,474	1,969,121	GWIS
2024	8,050	3,212,873	GWIS
2023	15,816	6,616,216	GWIS
2022	9,196	3,133,606	GWIS
2021	8,614	3,151,671	GWIS
2020	11,244	4,661,772	GWIS
2019	11,620	4,428,884	GWIS
2018	5,813	2,419,204	GWIS
2017	6,672	2,742,424	GWIS
2016	9,835	4,014,017	GWIS
2015	9,632	4,192,981	GWIS
2014	9,211	3,978,198	GWIS
2013	9,026	3,638,538	GWIS
2012	8,385	3,536,434	GWIS

National estimates from Copernicus GWIS, rebuilt from heat detections since 2012.

Hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS by the fire’s starting month, and the largest fire of each year.