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Wildfires in Khop

Khop, Laos, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 23,520 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 34% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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 24 Very low 31° · 55 % · 16 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 31° · 53 % · 18 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 65 % · 23 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 62 % · 23 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 61 % · 21 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 52 % · 16 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 57 % · 21 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 66 % · 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

23,520
hectares burned
34 %
of its area
12
fires
697
km²

How many times has Khop burned?

Khop has burned 12 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Khop fire, March 2026, with 6,778 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 23,520 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 18,512 hectares, 27 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 3× 23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 1× 26
12
fires
6
years with fire
23,520
cumulative ha
18,512
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 Khop

  1. 6,778 ha Khop fire, March 2026 where it started 9.7% of the municipality · 7,899 ha in total · 27 days
  2. 3,358 ha Khop fire, 26 March 2025 where it started 4.8% of the municipality · 3,369 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 3,026 ha Khop fire, 25 March 2025 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 3,261 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 1,953 ha Khop fire, 22 March 2023 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 2,304 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 2,145 ha Khop fire, 22 March 2023 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 2,151 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 1,853 ha Khop fire, 19 March 2023 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 28,618 ha in total · 31 days
  7. 46 ha Xienghone fire, 31 March 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 2,428 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 12 ha Paktha fire, 24 March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 4,614 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 0 ha Xienghone fire, 8 March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 3,222 ha in total · 11 days
  10. 23 ha Paktha fire, March 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 12,680 ha in total · 33 days
  11. 2,128 ha Khop fire, March 2019 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 2,118 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 2,197 ha Khop fire, March 2018 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 2,187 ha in total · 4 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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