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Wildfires in May

May, Laos, has had 28 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 71,875 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 26% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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 Low 31° · 49 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 31° · 47 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 31° · 48 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 30° · 56 % · 26 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 28° · 54 % · 29 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 28° · 48 % · 29 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 29° · 46 % · 19 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 29° · 51 % · 19 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

71,875
hectares burned
26 %
of its area
28
fires
2,764
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered May

  1. 4,206 ha May fire, 11 April 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 4,182 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 2,589 ha May fire, 10 April 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,578 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 2,795 ha May fire, 5 April 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,780 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 2,044 ha May fire, 5 April 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,032 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 3,314 ha May fire, 1 April 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,297 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 2,138 ha May fire, 31 March 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,129 ha in total · 15 days
  7. 2,919 ha May fire, March 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,908 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 3,496 ha May fire, 26 April 2024 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 4,330 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 3,796 ha May fire, 2 April 2024 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,775 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 4 ha Samphanh fire, 27 March 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 3,176 ha in total · 14 days
  11. 2,474 ha May fire, 15 April 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,468 ha in total · 11 days
  12. 2,027 ha May fire, 5 April 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,019 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 2,094 ha May fire, 4 April 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,084 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 2,557 ha May fire, 3 April 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,545 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 7,642 ha May fire, 2 April 2023 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 7,677 ha in total · 8 days
  16. 2,503 ha May fire, April 2022 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,491 ha in total · 4 days
  17. 2,116 ha May fire, 23 April 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,108 ha in total · 2 days
  18. 2,282 ha May fire, 23 April 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,270 ha in total · 2 days
  19. 2,123 ha May fire, 22 April 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,116 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 1,679 ha May fire, 15 April 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,488 ha in total · 1 day
  21. 2,390 ha May fire, 2 April 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,377 ha in total · 2 days
  22. 2,728 ha May fire, March 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,718 ha in total · 4 days
  23. 109 ha Samphanh fire, March 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,917 ha in total · 10 days
  24. 46 ha Samphanh fire, March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 4,865 ha in total · 11 days
  25. 2,882 ha May fire, March 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,872 ha in total · 3 days
  26. 4,003 ha May fire, 4 May 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,986 ha in total · 4 days
  27. 2,461 ha May fire, 3 May 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,447 ha in total · 2 days
  28. 2,456 ha May fire, April 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,443 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).