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Wildfires in Mahaxay

Mahaxay, Laos, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 8,944 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.3% 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. Sun 25 Very low 33° · 54 % · 26 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 32° · 62 % · 35 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Low 31° · 55 % · 49 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Low 32° · 51 % · 48 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 59 % · 41 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 61 % · 40 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Low 32° · 54 % · 37 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Low 33° · 55 % · 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

8,944
hectares burned
6.3 %
of its area
8
fires
1,414
km²

How many times has Mahaxay burned?

Mahaxay has burned 8 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2017, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Mahaxay fire, March 2026, with 2,427 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 8,944 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 7,333 hectares, 5.2 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
8
fires
6
years with fire
8,944
cumulative ha
7,333
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 Mahaxay

  1. 2,427 ha Mahaxay fire, March 2026 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,414 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 1,256 ha Xebangfay fire, April 2024 0.9% of the municipality · 2,272 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 303 ha Xebangfay fire, April 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 2,292 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 209 ha Xaybuathong fire, 26 February 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 2,233 ha in total · 18 days
  5. 2,208 ha Mahaxay fire, March 2022 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,196 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 198 ha Xaybuathong fire, 25 February 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 3,060 ha in total · 19 days
  7. 2,283 ha Mahaxay fire, February 2021 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,269 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 60 ha Xaybuathong fire, 5 March 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 2,664 ha in total · 3 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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