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Wildfires in Huameuang

Huameuang, Laos, has had 37 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 165,197 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 68% 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. Sat 31 Low 30° · 50 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Low 31° · 50 % · 25 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 27° · 67 % · 23 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 28° · 55 % · 17 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Low 29° · 54 % · 13 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 29° · 56 % · 30 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 27° · 70 % · 27 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 27° · 57 % · 33 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

165,197
hectares burned
68 %
of its area
37
fires
2,430
km²

How many times has Huameuang burned?

Huameuang has burned 37 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Kham fire, 8 April 2026, with 72 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 5× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 5× 23
  9. 5× 24
  10.   25
  11. 10× 26
37
fires
9
years with fire
165,197
cumulative ha
8 Apr 2026
most recent

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 Huameuang

  1. 72 ha Kham fire, 8 April 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,542 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 3,663 ha Huameuang fire, 6 April 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,654 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 2,304 ha Huameuang fire, 6 April 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,290 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 220 ha Nonghed fire, 5 April 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 12,255 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 2,091 ha Huameuang fire, 5 April 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,078 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 2,988 ha Huameuang fire, 2 April 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,264 ha in total · 11 days
  7. 426 ha Kham fire, 1 April 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 3,823 ha in total · 17 days
  8. 25,330 ha Huameuang fire, 26 March 2026 where it started 10% of the municipality · 30,665 ha in total · 25 days
  9. 7,234 ha Huameuang fire, 20 March 2026 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 7,203 ha in total · 28 days
  10. 2,550 ha Huameuang fire, 20 March 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,681 ha in total · 12 days
  11. 2,374 ha Huameuang fire, 28 April 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,363 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 2,356 ha Huameuang fire, 27 April 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,344 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 3,002 ha Huameuang fire, 27 April 2024 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,986 ha in total · 8 days
  14. 3,854 ha Huameuang fire, 21 April 2024 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,834 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 1,951 ha Xamneua fire, 1 April 2024 0.8% of the municipality · 2,206 ha in total · 8 days
  16. 2,220 ha Huameuang fire, 4 April 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,209 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 2,887 ha Huameuang fire, 3 April 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,872 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 23,812 ha Huameuang fire, 3 April 2023 where it started 9.8% of the municipality · 26,992 ha in total · 20 days
  19. 3,381 ha Huameuang fire, 2 April 2023 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 4,964 ha in total · 17 days
  20. 11,687 ha Huameuang fire, 1 April 2023 where it started 4.8% of the municipality · 13,842 ha in total · 20 days
  21. 644 ha Xamtay fire, April 2022 0.3% of the municipality · 2,177 ha in total · 5 days
  22. 2,226 ha Huameuang fire, April 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,214 ha in total · 5 days
  23. 4,518 ha Huameuang fire, 29 March 2020 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 4,633 ha in total · 8 days
  24. 2,530 ha Huameuang fire, 28 March 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,517 ha in total · 6 days
  25. 27 ha Kham fire, 26 March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,975 ha in total · 10 days
  26. 2,328 ha Huameuang fire, 9 April 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,316 ha in total · 8 days
  27. 2,291 ha Huameuang fire, 9 April 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,278 ha in total · 13 days
  28. 10,022 ha Huameuang fire, 9 April 2018 where it started 4.1% of the municipality · 9,972 ha in total · 6 days
  29. 10,922 ha Huameuang fire, 9 April 2018 where it started 4.5% of the municipality · 13,172 ha in total · 6 days
  30. 4,065 ha Huameuang fire, 8 April 2017 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 4,045 ha in total · 4 days
  31. 2,019 ha Kham fire, 7 April 2017 0.8% of the municipality · 4,168 ha in total · 5 days
  32. 5,356 ha Huameuang fire, 3 April 2017 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 5,328 ha in total · 10 days
  33. 3,118 ha Huameuang fire, 27 April 2016 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,101 ha in total · 2 days
  34. 2,215 ha Huameuang fire, 8 April 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,206 ha in total · 5 days
  35. 2,204 ha Hiem fire, April 2016 0.9% of the municipality · 5,182 ha in total · 12 days
  36. 3,254 ha Huameuang fire, March 2016 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,536 ha in total · 11 days
  37. 3,054 ha Xon fire, 6 March 2016 1.3% of the municipality · 4,675 ha in total · 19 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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