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Wildfires in Huoixai

Huoixai, Laos, has had 22 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 48,727 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 28% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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 30 Low 31° · 53 % · 16 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 57 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 64 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 65 % · 21 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 28° · 65 % · 19 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 29° · 66 % · 22 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 30° · 63 % · 21 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 28° · 69 % · 18 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

48,727
hectares burned
28 %
of its area
22
fires
1,732
km²

How many times has Huoixai burned?

Huoixai has burned 22 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Meung fire, 10 April 2026, with 956 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 48,727 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 37,634 hectares, 22 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 8× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 5× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
22
fires
6
years with fire
48,727
cumulative ha
37,634
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 Huoixai

  1. 956 ha Meung fire, 10 April 2026 0.6% of the municipality · 2,987 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 224 ha Pha Oudom fire, 2 April 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 7,260 ha in total · 21 days
  3. 3,259 ha Huoixai fire, 15 April 2023 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 3,242 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 4,305 ha Huoixai fire, 12 April 2023 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 4,281 ha in total · 17 days
  5. 2,248 ha Meung fire, 8 April 2023 1.3% of the municipality · 3,391 ha in total · 21 days
  6. 2,363 ha Huoixai fire, 1 April 2023 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,351 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 4,303 ha Huoixai fire, March 2023 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 9,095 ha in total · 31 days
  8. 2,321 ha Huoixai fire, 26 March 2020 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,307 ha in total · 11 days
  9. 3,095 ha Huoixai fire, 25 March 2020 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,079 ha in total · 15 days
  10. 2,540 ha Huoixai fire, 23 March 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 5,179 ha in total · 17 days
  11. 2,028 ha Huoixai fire, 22 March 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,018 ha in total · 17 days
  12. 1,470 ha Pha Oudom fire, 19 March 2020 0.8% of the municipality · 3,151 ha in total · 17 days
  13. 3,250 ha Tonpheung fire, 19 March 2020 1.9% of the municipality · 9,973 ha in total · 21 days
  14. 163 ha Viengphoukha fire, 16 March 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 2,595 ha in total · 24 days
  15. 1,695 ha Pha Oudom fire, 13 March 2020 1.0% of the municipality · 10,788 ha in total · 29 days
  16. 2,626 ha Huoixai fire, 29 March 2019 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,612 ha in total · 10 days
  17. 750 ha Pha Oudom fire, 19 March 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 5,277 ha in total · 23 days
  18. 2,375 ha Huoixai fire, 12 March 2019 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,256 ha in total · 14 days
  19. 2,508 ha Huoixai fire, April 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,495 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 2,187 ha Huoixai fire, 27 April 2016 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,174 ha in total · 3 days
  21. 2,022 ha Huoixai fire, 10 April 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,012 ha in total · 8 days
  22. 2,039 ha Huoixai fire, March 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,163 ha in total · 7 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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