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Wildfires in Naxaithong

Naxaithong, Laos, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2022: 39,674 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 44% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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. Tue 27 Very low 32° · 51 % · 31 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 60 % · 20 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 57 % · 19 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 65 % · 22 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 31° · 64 % · 21 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 66 % · 22 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 32° · 59 % · 27 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 31° · 58 % · 21 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

39,674
hectares burned
44 %
of its area
5
fires
905
km²

How many times has Naxaithong burned?

Naxaithong has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Naxaithong fire, April 2026, with 18,886 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 39,674 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 27,427 hectares, 30 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
5
fires
4
years with fire
39,674
cumulative ha
27,427
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 Naxaithong

  1. 18,886 ha Naxaithong fire, April 2026 where it started 21% of the municipality · 23,048 ha in total · 18 days
  2. 2,947 ha Naxaithong fire, April 2024 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 2,931 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 2,376 ha Naxaithong fire, April 2023 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 2,363 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 11,382 ha Naxaithong fire, March 2023 where it started 13% of the municipality · 12,599 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 4,082 ha Naxaithong fire, March 2022 where it started 4.5% of the municipality · 4,058 ha in total · 6 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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