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Wildfires in Pak Xeng

Pak Xeng, Laos: 45 fires since 2016 burned 199,474 hectares inside its boundaries, 1.2 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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 Low 31° · 49 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 30° · 50 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 31° · 49 % · 18 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 30° · 53 % · 28 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 30° · 40 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 29° · 47 % · 28 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 29° · 45 % · 18 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 30° · 54 % · 15 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

199,474
hectares burned
1.2×
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
45
fires
1,662
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Pak Xeng

  1. 1,882 ha Pak Xeng fire, April 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,084 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 565 ha Viengkham fire, 1 April 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 3,597 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 32,007 ha Park Ou fire, 22 March 2026 19% of the municipality · 56,191 ha in total · 32 days
  4. 34,321 ha Pak Xeng fire, March 2026 where it started 21% of the municipality · 47,642 ha in total · 35 days
  5. 1,442 ha Park Ou fire, April 2025 0.9% of the municipality · 2,338 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 2,153 ha Pak Xeng fire, April 2025 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,143 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 137 ha Ngoi fire, 15 April 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 3,266 ha in total · 16 days
  8. 2,319 ha Pak Xeng fire, April 2024 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,305 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 1,228 ha Park Ou fire, 26 March 2024 0.7% of the municipality · 14,236 ha in total · 21 days
  10. 3,141 ha Pak Xeng fire, 5 April 2023 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 3,125 ha in total · 21 days
  11. 1,070 ha Pak Xeng fire, 4 April 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,579 ha in total · 19 days
  12. 19,642 ha Pak Xeng fire, 3 April 2023 where it started 12% of the municipality · 19,543 ha in total · 27 days
  13. 4,666 ha Ngoi fire, 25 March 2023 2.8% of the municipality · 15,019 ha in total · 32 days
  14. 200 ha Phonxay fire, 24 March 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 7,213 ha in total · 26 days
  15. 19,996 ha Pak Xeng fire, March 2023 where it started 12% of the municipality · 30,865 ha in total · 26 days
  16. 293 ha Phonxay fire, 15 March 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 3,282 ha in total · 15 days
  17. 1,935 ha Viengkham fire, April 2022 1.2% of the municipality · 2,752 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 6,815 ha Pak Xeng fire, April 2022 where it started 4.1% of the municipality · 6,783 ha in total · 8 days
  19. 39 ha Viengkham fire, 23 April 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,307 ha in total · 2 days
  20. 2,819 ha Pak Xeng fire, 22 April 2021 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 3,919 ha in total · 5 days
  21. 1,120 ha Pak Xeng fire, 14 April 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,676 ha in total · 3 days
  22. 1,157 ha Park Ou fire, March 2021 0.7% of the municipality · 5,049 ha in total · 10 days
  23. 2,489 ha Pak Xeng fire, April 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,477 ha in total · 5 days
  24. 1,114 ha Ngoi fire, 28 March 2020 0.7% of the municipality · 3,322 ha in total · 7 days
  25. 12,707 ha Park Ou fire, 9 March 2020 7.6% of the municipality · 35,409 ha in total · 29 days
  26. 1,711 ha Pak Xeng fire, 11 April 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,405 ha in total · 11 days
  27. 5,715 ha Pak Xeng fire, 10 April 2019 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 8,338 ha in total · 12 days
  28. 2,515 ha Pak Xeng fire, 10 April 2019 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 4,864 ha in total · 6 days
  29. 2,030 ha Pak Xeng fire, 10 April 2019 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,021 ha in total · 12 days
  30. 7,324 ha Pak Xeng fire, 10 April 2019 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 7,284 ha in total · 12 days
  31. 2,039 ha Pak Xeng fire, 9 April 2019 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,030 ha in total · 9 days
  32. 1,176 ha Park Ou fire, 23 March 2019 0.7% of the municipality · 2,187 ha in total · 12 days
  33. 44 ha Phonxay fire, 13 March 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 2,073 ha in total · 20 days
  34. 2,041 ha Pak Xeng fire, 23 April 2018 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,032 ha in total · 2 days
  35. 1,449 ha Pak Xeng fire, 11 April 2018 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,073 ha in total · 4 days
  36. 3,799 ha Pak Xeng fire, 10 April 2018 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 3,823 ha in total · 4 days
  37. 2,172 ha Pak Xeng fire, 8 April 2018 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 6,404 ha in total · 7 days
  38. 3,951 ha Pak Xeng fire, 19 April 2017 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 3,931 ha in total · 4 days
  39. 813 ha Phonxay fire, 8 April 2017 0.5% of the municipality · 3,063 ha in total · 5 days
  40. 2,324 ha Pak Xeng fire, 8 April 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,340 ha in total · 5 days
  41. 616 ha Viengkham fire, April 2017 0.4% of the municipality · 2,486 ha in total · 9 days
  42. 505 ha Park Ou fire, 3 April 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 8,864 ha in total · 10 days
  43. 2,412 ha Pak Xeng fire, April 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,401 ha in total · 5 days
  44. 702 ha Viengkham fire, April 2016 0.4% of the municipality · 4,404 ha in total · 14 days
  45. 875 ha Pak Xeng fire, March 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,120 ha in total · 18 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).