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LA · Laos · Oudomxay

Wildfires in La

La, Laos, has had 17 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 35,463 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 29% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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 30° · 54 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 30° · 49 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 30° · 52 % · 14 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 60 % · 23 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 55 % · 27 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 28° · 49 % · 27 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 28° · 51 % · 17 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 29° · 53 % · 13 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

35,463
hectares burned
29 %
of its area
17
fires
1,215
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered La

  1. 2,237 ha La fire, April 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,226 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 2,812 ha La fire, 5 April 2023 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 3,455 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 1,080 ha Khua fire, April 2023 0.9% of the municipality · 6,588 ha in total · 21 days
  4. 2,455 ha La fire, 4 April 2023 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,443 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 3,689 ha La fire, 2 April 2023 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 4,343 ha in total · 16 days
  6. 2,546 ha La fire, April 2022 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 3,356 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 4,450 ha La fire, 21 April 2021 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 4,429 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 1,598 ha La fire, 21 April 2021 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,430 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 2,404 ha La fire, 20 April 2021 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,403 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 476 ha Boontay fire, 26 March 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 3,352 ha in total · 11 days
  11. 633 ha Khua fire, March 2020 0.5% of the municipality · 2,815 ha in total · 10 days
  12. 251 ha Khua fire, April 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 2,601 ha in total · 10 days
  13. 2,476 ha La fire, March 2019 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,464 ha in total · 6 days
  14. 3,743 ha La fire, 1 May 2017 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 3,725 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 3,072 ha La fire, 1 May 2017 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 3,057 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 1,539 ha La fire, May 2016 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,823 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 2 ha Boontay fire, 1 April 2016 0.0% 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).