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Wildfires in Anouvong

Anouvong, Laos, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2023: 33,266 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 16% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

Only fires of 2,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sun 25 Very low 25° · 76 % · 23 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 24° · 75 % · 23 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 25° · 57 % · 22 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 25° · 59 % · 22 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 25° · 63 % · 20 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 25° · 71 % · 24 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 24° · 80 % · 23 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 25° · 67 % · 23 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

33,266
hectares burned
16 %
of its area
12
fires
2,078
km²

How many times has Anouvong burned?

Anouvong has burned 12 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Anouvong fire, 9 April 2026, with 2,221 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 33,266 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 31,207 hectares, 15 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
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  4.   19
  5.   20
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  8. 5× 23
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  10.   25
  11. 7× 26
12
fires
2
years with fire
33,266
cumulative ha
31,207
distinct ha

Fires larger than 2,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Laos →

Fires that entered Anouvong

  1. 2,221 ha Anouvong fire, 9 April 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,209 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 2,221 ha Anouvong fire, 5 April 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,211 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 1,386 ha Home fire, April 2026 0.7% of the municipality · 2,096 ha in total · 14 days
  4. 3,249 ha Anouvong fire, 2 April 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,232 ha in total · 19 days
  5. 2,186 ha Longcheng fire, April 2026 1.0% of the municipality · 6,593 ha in total · 16 days
  6. 6,505 ha Anouvong fire, March 2026 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 6,473 ha in total · 24 days
  7. 3,457 ha Home fire, 25 March 2026 1.7% of the municipality · 8,541 ha in total · 27 days
  8. 3,738 ha Anouvong fire, 26 March 2023 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,719 ha in total · 28 days
  9. 3,188 ha Anouvong fire, 24 March 2023 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,171 ha in total · 19 days
  10. 1,299 ha Longsane fire, 23 March 2023 0.6% of the municipality · 3,239 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 33 ha Longcheng fire, March 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 2,902 ha in total · 21 days
  12. 3,785 ha Phaxay fire, 15 March 2023 1.8% of the municipality · 8,559 ha in total · 22 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/National Geographic Department, OCHA ROAP (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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