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Wildfires in Bolikhanh

Bolikhanh, Laos, has had 22 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 79,728 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 31% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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 30 Very low 32° · 53 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Low 32° · 54 % · 19 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Low 32° · 58 % · 19 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 31° · 65 % · 25 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 32° · 52 % · 14 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 56 % · 23 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 31° · 63 % · 24 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 30° · 63 % · 22 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

79,728
hectares burned
31 %
of its area
22
fires
2,575
km²

How many times has Bolikhanh burned?

Bolikhanh has burned 22 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Bolikhanh fire, 8 April 2026, with 1,911 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 79,728 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 68,919 hectares, 27 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 6× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 9× 26
22
fires
6
years with fire
79,728
cumulative ha
68,919
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 Bolikhanh

  1. 1,911 ha Bolikhanh fire, 8 April 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,169 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 2,600 ha Bolikhanh fire, 8 April 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,689 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 1,680 ha Bolikhanh fire, 8 April 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,105 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 2,355 ha Bolikhanh fire, 4 April 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,344 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 8,337 ha Bolikhanh fire, 2 April 2026 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 8,830 ha in total · 16 days
  6. 2,834 ha Viengthong fire, 2 April 2026 1.1% of the municipality · 11,863 ha in total · 16 days
  7. 9,386 ha Bolikhanh fire, 1 April 2026 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 16,018 ha in total · 21 days
  8. 11,448 ha Bolikhanh fire, 18 March 2026 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 11,826 ha in total · 34 days
  9. 8,841 ha Bolikhanh fire, 14 March 2026 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 8,791 ha in total · 38 days
  10. 478 ha Pakkading fire, March 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 2,259 ha in total · 12 days
  11. 1,307 ha Home fire, 20 March 2023 0.5% of the municipality · 4,029 ha in total · 13 days
  12. 2,163 ha Bolikhanh fire, 20 March 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,154 ha in total · 12 days
  13. 3,043 ha Bolikhanh fire, 18 March 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,029 ha in total · 15 days
  14. 3,449 ha Bolikhanh fire, 14 March 2023 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,430 ha in total · 22 days
  15. 3,122 ha Bolikhanh fire, 11 March 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,107 ha in total · 25 days
  16. 2,626 ha Bolikhanh fire, 28 March 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,613 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 3,790 ha Bolikhanh fire, 28 March 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,767 ha in total · 5 days
  18. 2,874 ha Bolikhanh fire, February 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,860 ha in total · 17 days
  19. 2,247 ha Bolikhanh fire, April 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,237 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 152 ha Mork fire, March 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 3,147 ha in total · 9 days
  21. 2,722 ha Bolikhanh fire, April 2018 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,708 ha in total · 7 days
  22. 2,363 ha Bolikhanh fire, April 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,350 ha in total · 16 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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