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Wildfires in Pek

Pek, Laos, has had 18 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 28,209 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 22% of its area. 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 28° · 49 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 29° · 50 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 28° · 58 % · 19 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 26° · 67 % · 30 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 25° · 57 % · 40 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 25° · 58 % · 40 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 26° · 57 % · 26 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 54 % · 23 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

28,209
hectares burned
22 %
of its area
18
fires
1,263
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Pek

  1. 77 ha Phookood fire, 26 March 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 2,615 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 536 ha Khoune fire, 24 March 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 4,215 ha in total · 18 days
  3. 794 ha Kham fire, 24 March 2026 0.6% of the municipality · 2,311 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 1,842 ha Pek fire, 24 March 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,228 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 4,928 ha Pek fire, 21 March 2026 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 9,358 ha in total · 21 days
  6. 1,147 ha Kham fire, 15 March 2026 0.9% of the municipality · 13,571 ha in total · 29 days
  7. 1,381 ha Pek fire, March 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,093 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 375 ha Khoune fire, March 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 3,774 ha in total · 9 days
  9. 332 ha Phookood fire, 21 March 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 11,637 ha in total · 10 days
  10. 4,068 ha Pek fire, March 2024 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 6,485 ha in total · 12 days
  11. 1,049 ha Pek fire, March 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,164 ha in total · 13 days
  12. 567 ha Phookood fire, 14 March 2023 0.4% of the municipality · 23,228 ha in total · 33 days
  13. 1 ha Phookood fire, 3 April 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 3,337 ha in total · 13 days
  14. 120 ha Khoune fire, March 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 3,373 ha in total · 10 days
  15. 7,275 ha Pek fire, March 2020 where it started 5.8% of the municipality · 8,891 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 972 ha Kham fire, 5 March 2019 0.8% of the municipality · 2,310 ha in total · 14 days
  17. 663 ha Kham fire, March 2017 0.5% of the municipality · 2,607 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 2,080 ha Pek fire, March 2017 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,639 ha in total · 6 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).