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Wildfires in Nhommalath

Nhommalath, Laos, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 12,787 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.3% 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. Sat 31 Very low 33° · 53 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 33° · 48 % · 16 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Low 33° · 43 % · 28 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 32° · 60 % · 30 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 54 % · 21 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 33° · 53 % · 33 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 32° · 53 % · 34 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Low 31° · 51 % · 40 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

12,787
hectares burned
8.3 %
of its area
4
fires
1,535
km²

How many times has Nhommalath burned?

Nhommalath has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2020, 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Nhommalath fire, March 2026, with 6,775 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 12,787 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 9,112 hectares, 5.9 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
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  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
4
fires
3
years with fire
12,787
cumulative ha
9,112
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 Nhommalath

  1. 6,775 ha Nhommalath fire, March 2026 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 7,053 ha in total · 26 days
  2. 1,768 ha Nakay fire, March 2021 1.2% of the municipality · 2,051 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 2,033 ha Nhommalath fire, 28 March 2020 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,022 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 2,211 ha Nhommalath fire, 28 March 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,378 ha in total · 7 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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