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Wildfires in Boontay

Boontay, Laos, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 12,391 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.0% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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 Low 30° · 52 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 30° · 46 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 30° · 50 % · 23 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 58 % · 21 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 62 % · 27 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 45 % · 21 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 29° · 45 % · 26 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 28° · 49 % · 30 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

12,391
hectares burned
9.0 %
of its area
6
fires
1,379
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Boontay

  1. 720 ha Samphanh fire, 28 March 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 2,623 ha in total · 17 days
  2. 2,360 ha Boontay fire, April 2023 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,349 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 3,074 ha Boontay fire, 27 March 2020 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 3,062 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 1,946 ha Boontay fire, 26 March 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,352 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 1,769 ha Boontay fire, 12 April 2016 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,391 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 2,521 ha Boontay fire, 1 April 2016 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,626 ha in total · 8 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).