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Wildfires in Boon Neua

Boon Neua, Laos, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 7,965 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.7% 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. Mon 26 Very low 28° · 58 % · 22 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 27° · 57 % · 25 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 26° · 46 % · 26 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 42 % · 18 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 49 % · 16 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Low 28° · 52 % · 25 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Low 28° · 53 % · 23 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 25° · 76 % · 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

7,965
hectares burned
6.7 %
of its area
7
fires
1,188
km²

How many times has Boon Neua burned?

Boon Neua has burned 7 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2020 and 2023. The most recent: Nhot Ou fire, 19 April 2023, with 216 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 7,965 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 6,953 hectares, 5.9 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 3× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 3× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
7
fires
3
years with fire
7,965
cumulative ha
6,953
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 Boon Neua

  1. 216 ha Nhot Ou fire, 19 April 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 3,025 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 1,063 ha Boon Neua fire, 10 April 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,407 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 2,074 ha Boon Neua fire, 5 April 2023 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,062 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 2,623 ha Boon Neua fire, 30 March 2020 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,857 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 52 ha Phongsaly fire, 29 March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,161 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 1,889 ha Boon Neua fire, 29 March 2020 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,034 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 50 ha Phongsaly fire, April 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 2,018 ha in total · 4 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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