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Wildfires in Longcheng

Longcheng, Laos, has had 13 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 22,865 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 12% 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 29° · 61 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 28° · 68 % · 20 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 28° · 67 % · 22 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 27° · 68 % · 19 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 63 % · 22 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 53 % · 24 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 62 % · 23 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 66 % · 21 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

22,865
hectares burned
12 %
of its area
13
fires
1,955
km²

How many times has Longcheng burned?

Longcheng has burned 13 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2020, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Vangvieng fire, 4 April 2026, with 648 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 22,865 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 20,418 hectares, 10 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 4× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11. 6× 26
13
fires
4
years with fire
22,865
cumulative ha
20,418
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 Longcheng

  1. 648 ha Vangvieng fire, 4 April 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 4,009 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 4,444 ha Longcheng fire, 2 April 2026 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 6,593 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 572 ha Phaxay fire, 1 April 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 4,332 ha in total · 20 days
  4. 2,081 ha Longcheng fire, 31 March 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,071 ha in total · 18 days
  5. 2,701 ha Vangvieng fire, March 2026 1.4% of the municipality · 8,745 ha in total · 30 days
  6. 1,251 ha Phaxay fire, 22 March 2026 0.6% of the municipality · 2,924 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 2,130 ha Longcheng fire, March 2024 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,954 ha in total · 12 days
  8. 52 ha Vangvieng fire, March 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 2,489 ha in total · 12 days
  9. 499 ha Phaxay fire, March 2023 0.3% of the municipality · 2,188 ha in total · 16 days
  10. 2,883 ha Longcheng fire, March 2023 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,902 ha in total · 21 days
  11. 483 ha Vangvieng fire, 16 March 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 3,417 ha in total · 19 days
  12. 2,485 ha Phaxay fire, March 2023 1.3% of the municipality · 8,559 ha in total · 22 days
  13. 2,635 ha Longcheng fire, March 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,621 ha in total · 5 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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