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Wildfires in Hongsa

Hongsa, Laos, has had 17 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 46,784 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 23 Very low 30° · 54 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 30° · 53 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 30° · 58 % · 13 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 28° · 70 % · 25 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 27° · 67 % · 27 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 56 % · 31 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 58 % · 19 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 61 % · 17 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

46,784
hectares burned
31 %
of its area
17
fires
1,512
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Hongsa

  1. 2,650 ha Hongsa fire, 10 April 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,639 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 1,965 ha Hongsa fire, 7 April 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,080 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 3,683 ha Hongsa fire, 1 April 2026 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 3,662 ha in total · 19 days
  4. 4,083 ha Hongsa fire, 29 March 2026 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 5,824 ha in total · 20 days
  5. 378 ha Xaysathan fire, March 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 2,398 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 440 ha Ngeun fire, March 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 2,799 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 2,129 ha Hongsa fire, March 2024 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,118 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 3,318 ha Hongsa fire, 25 March 2023 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 3,300 ha in total · 13 days
  9. 2,513 ha Hongsa fire, 17 March 2023 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,500 ha in total · 19 days
  10. 2,300 ha Hongsa fire, March 2021 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,287 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 1,527 ha Chomphet fire, 21 March 2020 1.0% of the municipality · 8,362 ha in total · 23 days
  12. 2,071 ha Hongsa fire, March 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,066 ha in total · 11 days
  13. 2,062 ha Hongsa fire, 11 April 2018 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,052 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 3,236 ha Hongsa fire, 10 April 2018 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 3,217 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 7,168 ha Hongsa fire, 7 April 2017 where it started 4.7% of the municipality · 8,764 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 2,183 ha Hongsa fire, 4 April 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,170 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 5,079 ha Hongsa fire, March 2016 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 5,049 ha in total · 14 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).