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Wildfires in Nan

Nan, Laos, has had 22 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 54,926 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 38% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Thu 22 Very low 26° · 60 % · 17 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Very low 26° · 61 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Very low 27° · 58 % · 21 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Very low 26° · 75 % · 21 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Very low 24° · 89 % · 22 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Very low 24° · 77 % · 24 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Very low 24° · 60 % · 21 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 62 % · 17 km/h
  9. Fri 30 Very low 25° · 64 % · 17 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

54,926
hectares burned
38 %
of its area
22
fires
1,447
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Nan

  1. 329 ha Kasy fire, 8 April 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 3,267 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 3,529 ha Nan fire, 6 April 2026 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 4,095 ha in total · 17 days
  3. 2,225 ha Nan fire, 3 April 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,212 ha in total · 16 days
  4. 9,810 ha Nan fire, 25 March 2026 where it started 6.8% of the municipality · 9,759 ha in total · 29 days
  5. 9 ha Xayabury fire, 20 March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,405 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 2 ha Chomphet fire, 19 March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 5,166 ha in total · 32 days
  7. 2,571 ha Nan fire, 24 March 2023 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,558 ha in total · 16 days
  8. 1,970 ha Nan fire, 23 March 2023 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,603 ha in total · 21 days
  9. 2,465 ha Nan fire, 23 March 2023 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,451 ha in total · 13 days
  10. 69 ha Xieng Ngeun fire, 17 March 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 2,426 ha in total · 18 days
  11. 2,072 ha Nan fire, March 2021 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,061 ha in total · 12 days
  12. 5,056 ha Nan fire, 27 March 2020 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 5,809 ha in total · 15 days
  13. 3,818 ha Nan fire, 23 March 2020 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 3,799 ha in total · 15 days
  14. 2,013 ha Nan fire, 22 March 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,002 ha in total · 14 days
  15. 2,291 ha Nan fire, 12 March 2020 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,276 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 2,492 ha Nan fire, 12 March 2020 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,479 ha in total · 13 days
  17. 3,228 ha Nan fire, March 2019 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 3,624 ha in total · 22 days
  18. 2,078 ha Nan fire, March 2019 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,064 ha in total · 11 days
  19. 265 ha Xieng Ngeun fire, 10 April 2018 0.2% of the municipality · 2,914 ha in total · 5 days
  20. 3,382 ha Nan fire, April 2018 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 3,358 ha in total · 6 days
  21. 2,580 ha Nan fire, April 2017 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,562 ha in total · 9 days
  22. 2,672 ha Nan fire, March 2017 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,654 ha in total · 20 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).