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Wildfires in Pakbeng

Pakbeng, Laos, has had 53 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 115,719 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 91% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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 Very low 29° · 56 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 29° · 57 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 29° · 57 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 28° · 69 % · 23 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 26° · 71 % · 27 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 54 % · 30 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 54 % · 20 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 58 % · 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

115,719
hectares burned
91 %
of its area
53
fires
1,275
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Pakbeng

  1. 28 ha Pha Oudom fire, 5 April 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 5,223 ha in total · 20 days
  2. 0 ha Xienghone fire, April 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 12,675 ha in total · 19 days
  3. 2,513 ha Pakbeng fire, 1 April 2026 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 3,615 ha in total · 18 days
  4. 9,083 ha Pakbeng fire, 1 April 2026 where it started 7.1% of the municipality · 9,120 ha in total · 22 days
  5. 149 ha Pakbeng fire, March 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 4,129 ha in total · 16 days
  6. 1,558 ha Paktha fire, March 2026 1.2% of the municipality · 2,989 ha in total · 22 days
  7. 4,468 ha Pakbeng fire, 30 March 2026 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 4,447 ha in total · 21 days
  8. 2,060 ha Pakbeng fire, 27 April 2024 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,051 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 2,467 ha Pakbeng fire, 31 March 2024 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,455 ha in total · 12 days
  10. 4,159 ha Pakbeng fire, 31 March 2024 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 4,135 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 521 ha Pha Oudom fire, 31 March 2024 0.4% of the municipality · 2,768 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 2,594 ha Pakbeng fire, 28 March 2024 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,582 ha in total · 13 days
  13. 4,802 ha Pakbeng fire, 25 March 2024 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 5,225 ha in total · 23 days
  14. 2 ha Xienghone fire, March 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 2,064 ha in total · 17 days
  15. 0 ha Hongsa fire, 25 March 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 3,300 ha in total · 13 days
  16. 4,757 ha Pakbeng fire, 25 March 2023 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 4,736 ha in total · 21 days
  17. 6,851 ha Pakbeng fire, 24 March 2023 where it started 5.4% of the municipality · 7,730 ha in total · 23 days
  18. 4,272 ha Pakbeng fire, 20 March 2023 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 5,254 ha in total · 17 days
  19. 5,502 ha Khop fire, March 2023 4.3% of the municipality · 24,544 ha in total · 31 days
  20. 5,655 ha Hoon fire, 10 March 2023 4.4% of the municipality · 9,870 ha in total · 26 days
  21. 863 ha Paktha fire, April 2022 0.7% of the municipality · 2,097 ha in total · 2 days
  22. 2,970 ha Pakbeng fire, April 2022 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 3,454 ha in total · 14 days
  23. 262 ha Hoon fire, 30 March 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 2,904 ha in total · 5 days
  24. 1,339 ha Pakbeng fire, 30 March 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,504 ha in total · 4 days
  25. 2,802 ha Pakbeng fire, 30 March 2021 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 3,974 ha in total · 4 days
  26. 2,199 ha Pakbeng fire, 29 March 2021 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,186 ha in total · 5 days
  27. 56 ha Hoon fire, 18 March 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,956 ha in total · 7 days
  28. 2,047 ha Pakbeng fire, March 2020 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,042 ha in total · 11 days
  29. 1,218 ha Pakbeng fire, 27 March 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,052 ha in total · 17 days
  30. 1,729 ha Pakbeng fire, 26 March 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,001 ha in total · 11 days
  31. 2,453 ha Pakbeng fire, 25 March 2020 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,469 ha in total · 12 days
  32. 4,669 ha Paktha fire, 25 March 2020 3.7% of the municipality · 7,799 ha in total · 14 days
  33. 3,949 ha Pakbeng fire, 21 March 2020 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 3,931 ha in total · 20 days
  34. 81 ha Pha Oudom fire, 21 March 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 10,361 ha in total · 23 days
  35. 11 ha Ngeun fire, 12 March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 6,491 ha in total · 25 days
  36. 278 ha Hoon fire, 8 March 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 9,258 ha in total · 16 days
  37. 2,356 ha Pakbeng fire, 26 March 2019 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,657 ha in total · 11 days
  38. 9 ha Xienghone fire, March 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 12,680 ha in total · 33 days
  39. 1,613 ha Pha Oudom fire, 21 March 2019 1.3% of the municipality · 11,424 ha in total · 13 days
  40. 1,659 ha Pakbeng fire, 18 March 2019 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,522 ha in total · 22 days
  41. 2,019 ha Pakbeng fire, 16 March 2019 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,008 ha in total · 19 days
  42. 6,455 ha Pakbeng fire, 16 March 2019 where it started 5.1% of the municipality · 6,914 ha in total · 26 days
  43. 1,160 ha Hoon fire, 9 March 2019 0.9% of the municipality · 5,774 ha in total · 24 days
  44. 2,742 ha Pakbeng fire, April 2018 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,730 ha in total · 6 days
  45. 1 ha Ngeun fire, April 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 2,089 ha in total · 5 days
  46. 624 ha Pha Oudom fire, 8 April 2017 0.5% of the municipality · 2,942 ha in total · 5 days
  47. 2,018 ha Pakbeng fire, 8 April 2017 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,008 ha in total · 5 days
  48. 3,113 ha Pakbeng fire, 8 April 2017 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 3,537 ha in total · 5 days
  49. 1,725 ha Pha Oudom fire, 8 April 2017 1.4% of the municipality · 2,962 ha in total · 5 days
  50. 500 ha Hoon fire, 4 April 2017 0.4% of the municipality · 5,143 ha in total · 12 days
  51. 0 ha Xienghone fire, 5 April 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 3,645 ha in total · 19 days
  52. 1,035 ha Pha Oudom fire, 1 April 2016 0.8% of the municipality · 5,164 ha in total · 18 days
  53. 325 ha Hoon fire, 30 March 2016 0.3% of the municipality · 2,164 ha in total · 1 day

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).