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Wildfires in Beng

Beng, Laos, has had 44 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 126,763 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 76% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Fri 23 Very low 27° · 58 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 28° · 57 % · 28 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 28° · 58 % · 19 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 27° · 70 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 25° · 69 % · 32 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 25° · 56 % · 33 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 59 % · 18 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 58 % · 17 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

126,763
hectares burned
76 %
of its area
44
fires
1,670
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Beng

  1. 8,471 ha Xay fire, 24 March 2026 5.1% of the municipality · 50,968 ha in total · 33 days
  2. 617 ha Hoon fire, 24 March 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 4,380 ha in total · 27 days
  3. 2,189 ha Beng fire, March 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,486 ha in total · 26 days
  4. 120 ha Hoon fire, 22 March 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 14,815 ha in total · 27 days
  5. 2,047 ha Beng fire, 15 April 2024 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,035 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 4,153 ha Beng fire, 13 April 2024 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 5,623 ha in total · 19 days
  7. 1,964 ha Beng fire, 6 April 2024 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,024 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 973 ha Hoon fire, 26 March 2024 0.6% of the municipality · 4,553 ha in total · 20 days
  9. 1,875 ha Beng fire, April 2023 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,217 ha in total · 17 days
  10. 9 ha Xay fire, 26 March 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 8,581 ha in total · 29 days
  11. 2,174 ha Beng fire, 23 March 2023 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,161 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 7,671 ha Beng fire, 23 March 2023 where it started 4.6% of the municipality · 12,942 ha in total · 22 days
  13. 2,716 ha Beng fire, 22 March 2023 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,734 ha in total · 16 days
  14. 11,343 ha Beng fire, 18 March 2023 where it started 6.8% of the municipality · 11,734 ha in total · 26 days
  15. 4,415 ha Hoon fire, 16 March 2023 2.6% of the municipality · 9,809 ha in total · 22 days
  16. 2,254 ha Beng fire, March 2021 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,387 ha in total · 11 days
  17. 2,884 ha Beng fire, 24 March 2020 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,867 ha in total · 7 days
  18. 2,534 ha Beng fire, 22 March 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,828 ha in total · 15 days
  19. 973 ha Hoon fire, 20 March 2020 0.6% of the municipality · 2,042 ha in total · 18 days
  20. 4,267 ha Beng fire, 18 March 2020 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 4,248 ha in total · 19 days
  21. 1,795 ha Xay fire, 17 March 2020 1.1% of the municipality · 11,597 ha in total · 22 days
  22. 4,723 ha Beng fire, 16 March 2020 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 7,154 ha in total · 23 days
  23. 1,993 ha Beng fire, 31 March 2019 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,210 ha in total · 4 days
  24. 3,004 ha Beng fire, 20 March 2019 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 4,543 ha in total · 13 days
  25. 2,682 ha Beng fire, 15 March 2019 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,665 ha in total · 10 days
  26. 2,620 ha Beng fire, 9 March 2019 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,054 ha in total · 19 days
  27. 1,340 ha Hoon fire, 6 March 2019 0.8% of the municipality · 4,089 ha in total · 16 days
  28. 1,804 ha Beng fire, 12 April 2018 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,709 ha in total · 3 days
  29. 2,287 ha Beng fire, 10 April 2018 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,274 ha in total · 4 days
  30. 1,369 ha Xay fire, 10 April 2018 0.8% of the municipality · 3,131 ha in total · 4 days
  31. 3,312 ha Beng fire, 10 April 2018 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 3,292 ha in total · 3 days
  32. 3,613 ha Beng fire, 9 April 2018 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 3,600 ha in total · 5 days
  33. 2,016 ha Beng fire, 9 April 2018 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,004 ha in total · 5 days
  34. 2,716 ha Beng fire, 8 April 2018 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,702 ha in total · 6 days
  35. 3,997 ha Hoon fire, 8 April 2018 2.4% of the municipality · 13,326 ha in total · 7 days
  36. 2,186 ha Beng fire, 10 April 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,172 ha in total · 3 days
  37. 2,354 ha Beng fire, 8 April 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,341 ha in total · 4 days
  38. 141 ha Xay fire, 5 April 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 3,130 ha in total · 7 days
  39. 2,173 ha Beng fire, 5 April 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,197 ha in total · 8 days
  40. 3,028 ha Hoon fire, 4 April 2017 1.8% of the municipality · 4,153 ha in total · 9 days
  41. 2,233 ha Beng fire, 3 April 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,623 ha in total · 10 days
  42. 9,653 ha Beng fire, 3 April 2017 where it started 5.8% of the municipality · 9,651 ha in total · 10 days
  43. 2,075 ha Beng fire, April 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,179 ha in total · 10 days
  44. 2 ha Xay fire, 3 April 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 4,640 ha in total · 20 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).