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Wildfires in Kaleum

Kaleum, Laos, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 27,562 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.2% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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 26° · 57 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 27° · 54 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 28° · 55 % · 24 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 28° · 48 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 27° · 54 % · 31 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 59 % · 42 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 59 % · 31 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 72 % · 24 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

27,562
hectares burned
8.2 %
of its area
9
fires
3,379
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Kaleum

  1. 2,599 ha Kaleum fire, 5 April 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,147 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 2,363 ha Kaleum fire, 1 April 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,351 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 0 ha Lamarm fire, 27 March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,682 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 4,518 ha Kaleum fire, 27 March 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 4,496 ha in total · 23 days
  5. 5,207 ha Kaleum fire, 25 March 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 5,195 ha in total · 21 days
  6. 2,539 ha Kaleum fire, April 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,526 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 2,565 ha Kaleum fire, April 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,552 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 5,695 ha Kaleum fire, March 2018 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 5,666 ha in total · 20 days
  9. 2,076 ha Kaleum fire, March 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,065 ha in total · 18 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).