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Wildfires in Nhot Ou

Nhot Ou, Laos, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 7,444 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.4% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Mon 26 Very low 27° · 62 % · 21 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 26° · 69 % · 25 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 25° · 54 % · 28 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 53 % · 22 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Low 28° · 49 % · 19 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 52 % · 22 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 28° · 52 % · 17 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 25° · 74 % · 22 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

7,444
hectares burned
2.4 %
of its area
4
fires
3,051
km²

How many times has Nhot Ou burned?

Nhot Ou has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2020, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Phongsaly fire, 9 April 2026, with 166 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
4
fires
3
years with fire
7,444
cumulative ha
9 Apr 2026
most recent

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 Nhot Ou

  1. 166 ha Phongsaly fire, 9 April 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,908 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 2,818 ha Nhot Ou fire, 19 April 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,025 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 2,246 ha Nhot Ou fire, 8 April 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,237 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 2,215 ha Nhot Ou fire, March 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,205 ha in total · 10 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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