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Wildfires in Luangprabang

Luangprabang, Laos, has had 18 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 9,414 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 12% 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. Fri 23 Very low 30° · 58 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 30° · 59 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 30° · 60 % · 27 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 66 % · 21 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 27° · 69 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 59 % · 32 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 57 % · 24 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 61 % · 20 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

9,414
hectares burned
12 %
of its area
18
fires
791
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Luangprabang

  1. 25 ha Chomphet fire, 19 March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 5,166 ha in total · 32 days
  2. 585 ha Nan fire, 23 March 2023 0.7% of the municipality · 2,603 ha in total · 21 days
  3. 64 ha Xieng Ngeun fire, 22 March 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 3,230 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 595 ha Xieng Ngeun fire, 17 March 2023 0.8% of the municipality · 2,426 ha in total · 18 days
  5. 23 ha Phonxay fire, 15 March 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 3,282 ha in total · 15 days
  6. 604 ha Nan fire, 27 March 2020 0.8% of the municipality · 5,809 ha in total · 15 days
  7. 283 ha Xieng Ngeun fire, 13 March 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 2,192 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 1,918 ha Luangprabang fire, March 2020 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 2,344 ha in total · 13 days
  9. 111 ha Nan fire, March 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 3,624 ha in total · 22 days
  10. 142 ha Park Ou fire, 23 March 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 2,187 ha in total · 12 days
  11. 456 ha Phonxay fire, 6 March 2019 0.6% of the municipality · 2,032 ha in total · 12 days
  12. 566 ha Xieng Ngeun fire, 10 April 2018 0.7% of the municipality · 2,914 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 1,257 ha Xieng Ngeun fire, 9 April 2018 1.6% of the municipality · 6,141 ha in total · 6 days
  14. 117 ha Phonxay fire, 8 April 2018 0.2% of the municipality · 11,228 ha in total · 7 days
  15. 41 ha Xieng Ngeun fire, 8 April 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 2,513 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 107 ha Phonxay fire, 3 April 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 7,327 ha in total · 10 days
  17. 279 ha Xieng Ngeun fire, 1 April 2016 0.4% of the municipality · 2,339 ha in total · 9 days
  18. 2,241 ha Luangprabang fire, March 2016 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 2,272 ha in total · 1 day

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).