Skip to content
worldfires
en
LA · Laos · Xaignabouli

Wildfires in Botene

Botene, Laos, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 53,070 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 48% 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 28° · 56 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 28° · 56 % · 17 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 28° · 57 % · 20 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 26° · 73 % · 39 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 25° · 66 % · 41 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 25° · 64 % · 48 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 59 % · 27 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 71 % · 36 km/h
  9. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 68 % · 27 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

53,070
hectares burned
48 %
of its area
10
fires
1,096
km²

How many times has Botene burned?

Botene has burned 10 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Botene fire, April 2026, with 4,680 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 53,070 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 39,598 hectares, 36 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 3× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
10
fires
5
years with fire
53,070
cumulative ha
39,598
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 Botene

  1. 4,680 ha Botene fire, April 2026 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 5,030 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 8,354 ha Botene fire, March 2026 where it started 7.6% of the municipality · 8,567 ha in total · 22 days
  3. 3,084 ha Botene fire, April 2023 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 3,068 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 5,997 ha Botene fire, 23 March 2023 where it started 5.5% of the municipality · 5,968 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 7,755 ha Botene fire, 20 March 2023 where it started 7.1% of the municipality · 7,713 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 2,066 ha Botene fire, February 2020 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,056 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 2,815 ha Botene fire, 7 March 2019 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 2,802 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 6,942 ha Botene fire, 3 March 2019 where it started 6.3% of the municipality · 6,903 ha in total · 13 days
  9. 2,622 ha Botene fire, 20 March 2016 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 2,609 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 8,753 ha Botene fire, 16 March 2016 where it started 8.0% of the municipality · 8,704 ha in total · 10 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).

Tell me what burns here

New fires in this area by RSS: paste the link into your reader, no email needed.

Follow by RSS