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Wildfires in Hiem

Hiem, Laos, has had 22 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 38,925 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 28% 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 23 Moderate 31° · 44 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 30° · 46 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 31° · 46 % · 18 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 28° · 63 % · 30 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 28° · 47 % · 38 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 28° · 50 % · 37 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 29° · 47 % · 24 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 30° · 50 % · 19 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

38,925
hectares burned
28 %
of its area
22
fires
1,415
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Hiem

  1. 2,076 ha Hiem fire, April 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,065 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 2,280 ha Hiem fire, March 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,320 ha in total · 22 days
  3. 175 ha Kham fire, 15 March 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 13,571 ha in total · 29 days
  4. 576 ha Xon fire, 4 April 2023 0.4% of the municipality · 2,661 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 1,418 ha Viengkham fire, 3 April 2023 1.0% of the municipality · 2,397 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 3,136 ha Hiem fire, 31 March 2023 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 3,122 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 2,191 ha Hiem fire, 21 March 2023 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,181 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 2,978 ha Hiem fire, 29 March 2020 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 2,962 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 2,659 ha Hiem fire, 29 March 2020 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,646 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 2,564 ha Hiem fire, 28 March 2020 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,553 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 60 ha Xon fire, 27 March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,599 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 2,107 ha Hiem fire, 21 March 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,111 ha in total · 15 days
  13. 2,090 ha Hiem fire, February 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,080 ha in total · 6 days
  14. 2,071 ha Hiem fire, April 2018 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,060 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 2,402 ha Hiem fire, 3 April 2017 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,389 ha in total · 10 days
  16. 2,366 ha Hiem fire, 31 March 2017 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,355 ha in total · 13 days
  17. 2,259 ha Xon fire, April 2016 1.6% of the municipality · 4,231 ha in total · 9 days
  18. 3,004 ha Hiem fire, March 2016 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 5,182 ha in total · 18 days
  19. 571 ha Xon fire, 15 March 2016 0.4% of the municipality · 2,195 ha in total · 10 days
  20. 229 ha Huameuang fire, 13 March 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 3,536 ha in total · 11 days
  21. 857 ha Huameuang fire, 6 March 2016 0.6% of the municipality · 4,675 ha in total · 19 days
  22. 856 ha Hiem fire, March 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,162 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).