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Wildfires in Khua

Khua, Laos, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 26,944 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 16% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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 Low 30° · 48 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 30° · 51 % · 14 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 28° · 64 % · 23 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Low 28° · 47 % · 28 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Low 28° · 45 % · 28 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Low 29° · 43 % · 21 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Low 29° · 53 % · 22 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 58 % · 23 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

26,944
hectares burned
16 %
of its area
12
fires
1,694
km²

How many times has Khua burned?

Khua has burned 12 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. The most recent: La fire, 5 April 2023, with 658 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 26,944 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 20,724 hectares, 12 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
12
fires
6
years with fire
26,944
cumulative ha
20,724
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 Khua

  1. 658 ha La fire, 5 April 2023 0.4% of the municipality · 3,455 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 5,542 ha Khua fire, April 2023 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 6,588 ha in total · 21 days
  3. 677 ha La fire, 2 April 2023 0.4% of the municipality · 4,343 ha in total · 16 days
  4. 5,835 ha Khua fire, April 2022 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 6,002 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 844 ha La fire, 21 April 2021 0.5% of the municipality · 2,430 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 3,260 ha Khua fire, April 2021 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 3,244 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 2,196 ha Khua fire, March 2020 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,815 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 944 ha Boontay fire, 26 March 2020 0.6% of the municipality · 3,352 ha in total · 11 days
  9. 2,363 ha Khua fire, April 2019 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,601 ha in total · 10 days
  10. 1,299 ha La fire, May 2016 0.8% of the municipality · 2,823 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 2,208 ha Khua fire, May 2016 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,198 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 1,118 ha Boontay fire, 1 April 2016 0.7% of the municipality · 3,626 ha in total · 8 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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