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Wildfires in Kham

Kham, Laos, has had 49 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 140,408 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 67% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 28° · 55 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 28° · 58 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 28° · 64 % · 20 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 25° · 78 % · 33 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 23° · 67 % · 43 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 24° · 68 % · 39 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 67 % · 28 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 59 % · 26 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

140,408
hectares burned
67 %
of its area
49
fires
2,110
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Kham

  1. 3,491 ha Kham fire, 8 April 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,542 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 2,484 ha Kham fire, 7 April 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,472 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 1,502 ha Kham fire, 1 April 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,823 ha in total · 17 days
  4. 9 ha Huameuang fire, 30 March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,654 ha in total · 19 days
  5. 5,496 ha Huameuang fire, 26 March 2026 2.6% of the municipality · 30,665 ha in total · 25 days
  6. 93 ha Phookood fire, 26 March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,615 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 1,527 ha Kham fire, 24 March 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,311 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 397 ha Pek fire, 24 March 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 2,228 ha in total · 11 days
  9. 2,443 ha Kham fire, 24 March 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,429 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 3,001 ha Kham fire, 21 March 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,986 ha in total · 22 days
  11. 143 ha Huameuang fire, 20 March 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 2,681 ha in total · 12 days
  12. 11,438 ha Kham fire, 15 March 2026 where it started 5.4% of the municipality · 13,571 ha in total · 29 days
  13. 2,471 ha Kham fire, 14 March 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,459 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 2,842 ha Kham fire, March 2025 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,827 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 529 ha Phookood fire, 21 March 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 11,637 ha in total · 10 days
  16. 2,044 ha Kham fire, April 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,033 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 2,277 ha Kham fire, March 2024 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,265 ha in total · 6 days
  18. 2,174 ha Kham fire, 17 April 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,162 ha in total · 11 days
  19. 2,076 ha Kham fire, 3 April 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,065 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 3,322 ha Huameuang fire, 3 April 2023 1.6% of the municipality · 26,992 ha in total · 20 days
  21. 888 ha Huameuang fire, 2 April 2023 0.4% of the municipality · 4,964 ha in total · 13 days
  22. 2,422 ha Kham fire, 2 April 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,410 ha in total · 6 days
  23. 2,224 ha Huameuang fire, 1 April 2023 1.0% of the municipality · 13,842 ha in total · 20 days
  24. 70 ha Nonghed fire, 30 March 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 2,102 ha in total · 13 days
  25. 8,752 ha Kham fire, 22 March 2023 where it started 4.2% of the municipality · 8,709 ha in total · 23 days
  26. 2,938 ha Kham fire, 22 March 2023 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,924 ha in total · 5 days
  27. 10,029 ha Phookood fire, 14 March 2023 4.8% of the municipality · 23,228 ha in total · 33 days
  28. 2,958 ha Kham fire, April 2022 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,942 ha in total · 7 days
  29. 139 ha Huameuang fire, 29 March 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 4,633 ha in total · 8 days
  30. 2,965 ha Kham fire, 26 March 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,975 ha in total · 10 days
  31. 6,375 ha Kham fire, 22 March 2020 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 6,740 ha in total · 13 days
  32. 4,788 ha Kham fire, 17 March 2020 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 4,762 ha in total · 19 days
  33. 2,931 ha Kham fire, 10 March 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,952 ha in total · 8 days
  34. 2,642 ha Kham fire, 9 March 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,628 ha in total · 6 days
  35. 1,432 ha Pek fire, March 2020 0.7% of the municipality · 8,891 ha in total · 7 days
  36. 2,072 ha Kham fire, April 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,061 ha in total · 4 days
  37. 2,744 ha Kham fire, 5 March 2019 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,729 ha in total · 14 days
  38. 1,349 ha Kham fire, 5 March 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,310 ha in total · 14 days
  39. 2,315 ha Huameuang fire, 9 April 2018 1.1% of the municipality · 13,172 ha in total · 6 days
  40. 5,278 ha Kham fire, April 2018 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 5,253 ha in total · 7 days
  41. 2,172 ha Kham fire, 7 April 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,168 ha in total · 5 days
  42. 2,188 ha Kham fire, 3 April 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,177 ha in total · 7 days
  43. 1,956 ha Kham fire, March 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,607 ha in total · 4 days
  44. 2,238 ha Kham fire, April 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,225 ha in total · 9 days
  45. 4,402 ha Kham fire, 16 March 2016 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 6,204 ha in total · 8 days
  46. 4,171 ha Kham fire, 16 March 2016 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 4,150 ha in total · 8 days
  47. 37 ha Nonghed fire, March 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 4,913 ha in total · 8 days
  48. 68 ha Huameuang fire, 13 March 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 3,536 ha in total · 11 days
  49. 8,107 ha Kham fire, 13 March 2016 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 8,057 ha in total · 11 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).