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Wildfires in Paksxong

Paksxong, Laos, has had 16 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 46,893 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 14% 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. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 47 % · 31 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 65 % · 37 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 59 % · 29 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 66 % · 21 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 56 % · 27 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 28° · 69 % · 24 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 43 % · 31 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 29° · 87 % · 28 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

46,893
hectares burned
14 %
of its area
16
fires
3,372
km²

How many times has Paksxong burned?

Paksxong has burned 16 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Paksxong fire, 12 March 2026, with 2,111 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 46,893 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 32,130 hectares, 9.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 6× 26
16
fires
9
years with fire
46,893
cumulative ha
32,130
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 Paksxong

  1. 2,111 ha Paksxong fire, 12 March 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,099 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 2,279 ha Paksxong fire, 12 March 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,267 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 2,805 ha Paksxong fire, 8 March 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,788 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 7,480 ha Paksxong fire, 8 March 2026 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 7,655 ha in total · 43 days
  5. 2,053 ha Sanamxay fire, 8 February 2026 0.6% of the municipality · 2,282 ha in total · 16 days
  6. 3,156 ha Paksxong fire, February 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,775 ha in total · 24 days
  7. 2,339 ha Thateng fire, March 2025 0.7% of the municipality · 2,517 ha in total · 16 days
  8. 2,014 ha Paksxong fire, February 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,106 ha in total · 27 days
  9. 3,168 ha Paksxong fire, February 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,235 ha in total · 23 days
  10. 2,453 ha Paksxong fire, February 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,464 ha in total · 16 days
  11. 2,451 ha Paksxong fire, February 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,529 ha in total · 19 days
  12. 2,468 ha Paksxong fire, March 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,454 ha in total · 21 days
  13. 3,788 ha Paksxong fire, February 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,767 ha in total · 25 days
  14. 2,418 ha Paksxong fire, 10 March 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,404 ha in total · 19 days
  15. 3,136 ha Paksxong fire, 2 March 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,118 ha in total · 11 days
  16. 2,774 ha Paksxong fire, March 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,757 ha in total · 27 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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