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Wildfires in Namtha

Namtha, Laos, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 47,530 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 23% 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 % · 18 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 30° · 52 % · 16 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 30° · 51 % · 18 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 61 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 52 % · 19 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 49 % · 22 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 51 % · 22 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 54 % · 18 km/h
  9. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 61 % · 23 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

47,530
hectares burned
23 %
of its area
10
fires
2,084
km²

How many times has Namtha burned?

Namtha has burned 10 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Namor fire, 27 April 2024, with 2,892 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 47,530 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 41,591 hectares, 20 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4.   19
  5. 4× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
10
fires
6
years with fire
47,530
cumulative ha
41,591
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 Namtha

  1. 2,892 ha Namor fire, 27 April 2024 1.4% of the municipality · 6,093 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 2,222 ha Namtha fire, April 2023 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,208 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 4,810 ha Namtha fire, 29 March 2020 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 4,782 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 5,262 ha Namtha fire, 26 March 2020 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 5,234 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 17,376 ha Namtha fire, 17 March 2020 where it started 8.3% of the municipality · 17,587 ha in total · 24 days
  6. 3,613 ha Namtha fire, 16 March 2020 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 3,798 ha in total · 15 days
  7. 3,001 ha Namtha fire, 12 April 2018 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,986 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 2,369 ha Namtha fire, 11 April 2018 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,359 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 3,278 ha Namtha fire, March 2017 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,264 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 2,708 ha Namtha fire, March 2016 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,697 ha in total · 2 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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