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Wildfires in Park Ou

Park Ou, Laos: 41 fires since 2016 burned 166,979 hectares inside its boundaries, 1.9 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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 32° · 49 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 32° · 49 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 32° · 52 % · 19 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 30° · 61 % · 25 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 61 % · 30 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 29° · 50 % · 29 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 30° · 47 % · 23 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 30° · 54 % · 19 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

166,979
hectares burned
1.9×
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
41
fires
887
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Park Ou

  1. 2,617 ha Park Ou fire, 24 March 2026 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 2,604 ha in total · 17 days
  2. 2,822 ha Park Ou fire, 23 March 2026 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 4,046 ha in total · 23 days
  3. 5,632 ha Park Ou fire, 22 March 2026 where it started 6.4% of the municipality · 56,191 ha in total · 32 days
  4. 3,763 ha Park Ou fire, 19 March 2026 where it started 4.2% of the municipality · 3,741 ha in total · 23 days
  5. 1,824 ha Park Ou fire, 18 March 2026 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 2,053 ha in total · 15 days
  6. 909 ha Park Ou fire, April 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,338 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 2,625 ha Park Ou fire, 29 March 2024 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 2,613 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 13,078 ha Park Ou fire, 26 March 2024 where it started 15% of the municipality · 14,236 ha in total · 21 days
  9. 2,761 ha Park Ou fire, 25 March 2024 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 2,766 ha in total · 15 days
  10. 3,109 ha Nga fire, 24 March 2024 3.5% of the municipality · 7,619 ha in total · 17 days
  11. 2,514 ha Park Ou fire, 23 March 2023 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 2,501 ha in total · 13 days
  12. 1,482 ha Park Ou fire, 23 March 2023 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,559 ha in total · 20 days
  13. 1,883 ha Park Ou fire, 22 March 2023 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 2,184 ha in total · 8 days
  14. 879 ha Nga fire, 21 March 2023 1.0% of the municipality · 6,374 ha in total · 23 days
  15. 8,764 ha Pak Xeng fire, March 2023 9.9% of the municipality · 30,865 ha in total · 26 days
  16. 609 ha Phonxay fire, 15 March 2023 0.7% of the municipality · 3,282 ha in total · 15 days
  17. 4,744 ha Park Ou fire, 3 April 2022 where it started 5.4% of the municipality · 4,742 ha in total · 6 days
  18. 4,047 ha Park Ou fire, 3 April 2022 where it started 4.6% of the municipality · 5,126 ha in total · 13 days
  19. 2,191 ha Park Ou fire, 23 March 2022 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 2,180 ha in total · 6 days
  20. 4,853 ha Park Ou fire, 19 March 2022 where it started 5.5% of the municipality · 4,825 ha in total · 10 days
  21. 3,921 ha Park Ou fire, March 2021 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 5,049 ha in total · 10 days
  22. 3,359 ha Park Ou fire, February 2021 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 3,341 ha in total · 16 days
  23. 79 ha Ngoi fire, 28 March 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 3,322 ha in total · 7 days
  24. 10,561 ha Park Ou fire, 9 March 2020 where it started 12% of the municipality · 35,409 ha in total · 29 days
  25. 10,424 ha Park Ou fire, 8 March 2020 where it started 12% of the municipality · 10,480 ha in total · 20 days
  26. 878 ha Park Ou fire, 23 March 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,187 ha in total · 12 days
  27. 5,367 ha Park Ou fire, 14 March 2019 where it started 6.0% of the municipality · 5,340 ha in total · 20 days
  28. 3,988 ha Park Ou fire, 9 March 2019 where it started 4.5% of the municipality · 5,157 ha in total · 26 days
  29. 632 ha Pak Xeng fire, 11 April 2018 0.7% of the municipality · 2,073 ha in total · 4 days
  30. 4,263 ha Pak Xeng fire, 8 April 2018 4.8% of the municipality · 6,404 ha in total · 7 days
  31. 18,453 ha Nga fire, 3 April 2018 21% of the municipality · 40,796 ha in total · 12 days
  32. 25 ha Pak Xeng fire, 8 April 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 2,340 ha in total · 5 days
  33. 2,479 ha Park Ou fire, 5 April 2017 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 3,336 ha in total · 8 days
  34. 5,156 ha Park Ou fire, 4 April 2017 where it started 5.8% of the municipality · 5,130 ha in total · 9 days
  35. 8,406 ha Park Ou fire, 3 April 2017 where it started 9.5% of the municipality · 8,864 ha in total · 10 days
  36. 3,823 ha Park Ou fire, 3 April 2017 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 3,801 ha in total · 6 days
  37. 2,856 ha Park Ou fire, 31 March 2016 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 4,628 ha in total · 16 days
  38. 2,212 ha Park Ou fire, 31 March 2016 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 2,201 ha in total · 16 days
  39. 2,629 ha Park Ou fire, 29 March 2016 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 2,616 ha in total · 20 days
  40. 2,891 ha Park Ou fire, 29 March 2016 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 2,875 ha in total · 19 days
  41. 3,471 ha Park Ou fire, 29 March 2016 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 3,453 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).