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Wildfires in Paktha

Paktha, Laos, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 11,972 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 13% 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. Fri 23 Very low 30° · 59 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 30° · 59 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 30° · 64 % · 17 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 73 % · 23 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 70 % · 23 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 58 % · 24 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 60 % · 16 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 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

11,972
hectares burned
13 %
of its area
9
fires
895
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Paktha

  1. 113 ha Pha Oudom fire, 2 April 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 7,260 ha in total · 21 days
  2. 1,444 ha Paktha fire, March 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,989 ha in total · 22 days
  3. 2,271 ha Paktha fire, March 2026 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 2,260 ha in total · 25 days
  4. 32 ha Pakbeng fire, 24 March 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 7,730 ha in total · 23 days
  5. 1,243 ha Paktha fire, April 2022 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,097 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 3,167 ha Paktha fire, 25 March 2020 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 7,799 ha in total · 14 days
  7. 2,542 ha Paktha fire, 18 March 2020 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 2,598 ha in total · 19 days
  8. 82 ha Pakbeng fire, 26 March 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 2,657 ha in total · 11 days
  9. 1,077 ha Pha Oudom fire, 12 April 2016 1.2% of the municipality · 2,173 ha in total · 12 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).