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Wildfires in Namor

Namor, Laos: 47 fires since 2016 burned 213,262 hectares inside its boundaries, 1.2 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. 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° · 56 % · 20 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 30° · 51 % · 19 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 30° · 52 % · 17 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 63 % · 23 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 59 % · 24 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 48 % · 30 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 46 % · 18 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 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

213,262
hectares burned
1.2×
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
47
fires
1,747
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Namor

  1. 3,712 ha Namor fire, March 2026 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 4,848 ha in total · 27 days
  2. 3,012 ha Xay fire, 24 March 2026 1.7% of the municipality · 50,968 ha in total · 33 days
  3. 2,348 ha Namor fire, 25 April 2025 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,337 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 4,248 ha Namor fire, 18 April 2025 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 5,763 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 2,043 ha Namor fire, 17 April 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,034 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 3,201 ha Namor fire, 27 April 2024 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 6,093 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 3,175 ha Namor fire, 18 April 2024 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,162 ha in total · 17 days
  8. 313 ha Xay fire, 15 April 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 2,229 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 5,825 ha Namor fire, March 2023 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 8,366 ha in total · 34 days
  10. 40,715 ha Xay fire, 19 March 2023 23% of the municipality · 60,413 ha in total · 39 days
  11. 2,452 ha Namor fire, 26 April 2022 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,440 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 6,572 ha Namor fire, 25 April 2022 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 6,722 ha in total · 10 days
  13. 2,356 ha Namor fire, 25 April 2022 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,618 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 1,861 ha Namor fire, 25 April 2022 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,197 ha in total · 10 days
  15. 7,235 ha Namor fire, 24 April 2022 where it started 4.1% of the municipality · 7,204 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 1,067 ha Xay fire, 24 April 2022 0.6% of the municipality · 5,457 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 2,101 ha Namor fire, 23 April 2022 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,091 ha in total · 7 days
  18. 4,518 ha Namor fire, 23 April 2022 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 4,884 ha in total · 6 days
  19. 2,044 ha Namor fire, 15 April 2022 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,036 ha in total · 2 days
  20. 713 ha Namor fire, 11 April 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,413 ha in total · 6 days
  21. 2,232 ha Namor fire, 5 April 2022 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,252 ha in total · 13 days
  22. 4,495 ha Namor fire, 21 April 2021 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 4,479 ha in total · 4 days
  23. 3,556 ha Namor fire, 20 April 2021 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 6,631 ha in total · 5 days
  24. 2,016 ha Namor fire, 20 April 2021 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,007 ha in total · 4 days
  25. 5,133 ha Namor fire, 20 April 2021 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 5,144 ha in total · 5 days
  26. 2,962 ha Xay fire, 20 April 2021 1.7% of the municipality · 7,436 ha in total · 5 days
  27. 2,371 ha Namor fire, 14 April 2021 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,359 ha in total · 3 days
  28. 2,473 ha Namor fire, 16 April 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,463 ha in total · 8 days
  29. 3,481 ha Namor fire, 16 April 2020 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 3,468 ha in total · 4 days
  30. 1,719 ha Xay fire, 11 April 2020 1.0% of the municipality · 4,092 ha in total · 2 days
  31. 2,012 ha Namor fire, 30 March 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,005 ha in total · 6 days
  32. 948 ha Nalae fire, March 2020 0.5% of the municipality · 2,098 ha in total · 6 days
  33. 2,332 ha Namor fire, 22 March 2020 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,321 ha in total · 19 days
  34. 286 ha Namtha fire, March 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 17,587 ha in total · 24 days
  35. 2,216 ha Namor fire, 9 April 2019 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,205 ha in total · 11 days
  36. 2,504 ha Namor fire, 8 April 2019 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,494 ha in total · 13 days
  37. 739 ha Xay fire, April 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 2,809 ha in total · 14 days
  38. 16,336 ha Namor fire, March 2019 where it started 9.4% of the municipality · 23,964 ha in total · 26 days
  39. 3,583 ha Namor fire, 11 April 2018 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 3,567 ha in total · 3 days
  40. 847 ha Nalae fire, April 2018 0.5% of the municipality · 3,231 ha in total · 4 days
  41. 4,706 ha Namor fire, 10 April 2018 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 4,686 ha in total · 4 days
  42. 5,473 ha Xay fire, 5 April 2018 3.1% of the municipality · 31,315 ha in total · 10 days
  43. 27,356 ha Namor fire, April 2017 where it started 16% of the municipality · 29,869 ha in total · 14 days
  44. 1,639 ha Boontay fire, 12 April 2016 0.9% of the municipality · 3,391 ha in total · 7 days
  45. 3,777 ha Namor fire, 12 April 2016 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 3,762 ha in total · 12 days
  46. 2,603 ha Namor fire, 11 April 2016 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,591 ha in total · 13 days
  47. 5,955 ha Xay fire, 3 April 2016 3.4% of the municipality · 23,891 ha in total · 26 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).