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Wildfires in Pha Oudom

Pha Oudom, Laos, has had 41 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 122,705 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 72% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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 30° · 53 % · 29 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 30° · 53 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 30° · 54 % · 23 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 28° · 66 % · 24 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 27° · 67 % · 26 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 55 % · 32 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 51 % · 22 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 29° · 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

122,705
hectares burned
72 %
of its area
41
fires
1,711
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Pha Oudom

  1. 5,220 ha Pha Oudom fire, 5 April 2026 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 5,223 ha in total · 20 days
  2. 6,963 ha Pha Oudom fire, 2 April 2026 where it started 4.1% of the municipality · 7,260 ha in total · 21 days
  3. 1,122 ha Pakbeng fire, 1 April 2026 0.7% of the municipality · 3,615 ha in total · 18 days
  4. 3,997 ha Pakbeng fire, March 2026 2.3% of the municipality · 4,129 ha in total · 16 days
  5. 1,770 ha Pha Oudom fire, March 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,223 ha in total · 18 days
  6. 2,164 ha Pha Oudom fire, 29 March 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,153 ha in total · 19 days
  7. 783 ha Hoon fire, 22 March 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 14,815 ha in total · 27 days
  8. 2,111 ha Pha Oudom fire, March 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,099 ha in total · 11 days
  9. 2,850 ha Pha Oudom fire, 14 April 2024 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,835 ha in total · 10 days
  10. 2,259 ha Pha Oudom fire, 31 March 2024 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,768 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 0 ha Pakbeng fire, 31 March 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 2,455 ha in total · 12 days
  12. 1 ha Pakbeng fire, 31 March 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 4,135 ha in total · 8 days
  13. 4,844 ha Pha Oudom fire, 24 March 2023 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 9,095 ha in total · 31 days
  14. 884 ha Pakbeng fire, 24 March 2023 0.5% of the municipality · 7,730 ha in total · 23 days
  15. 2,429 ha Pha Oudom fire, 24 March 2023 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,921 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 1,012 ha Pakbeng fire, 20 March 2023 0.6% of the municipality · 5,254 ha in total · 17 days
  17. 5,984 ha Pha Oudom fire, 19 March 2023 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 5,955 ha in total · 25 days
  18. 1,968 ha Hoon fire, April 2022 1.2% of the municipality · 2,578 ha in total · 14 days
  19. 9 ha Pakbeng fire, 30 March 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,504 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 1,193 ha Pakbeng fire, 30 March 2021 0.7% of the municipality · 3,974 ha in total · 4 days
  21. 2,873 ha Pha Oudom fire, March 2021 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,857 ha in total · 15 days
  22. 845 ha Pakbeng fire, 27 March 2020 0.5% of the municipality · 2,052 ha in total · 17 days
  23. 283 ha Pakbeng fire, 26 March 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 2,001 ha in total · 11 days
  24. 0 ha Paktha fire, 25 March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 7,799 ha in total · 14 days
  25. 4,087 ha Pha Oudom fire, 24 March 2020 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 4,067 ha in total · 20 days
  26. 8,735 ha Pha Oudom fire, 21 March 2020 where it started 5.1% of the municipality · 10,361 ha in total · 23 days
  27. 1,698 ha Pha Oudom fire, 19 March 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,151 ha in total · 17 days
  28. 70 ha Paktha fire, 18 March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,598 ha in total · 19 days
  29. 9,152 ha Pha Oudom fire, 13 March 2020 where it started 5.4% of the municipality · 10,788 ha in total · 29 days
  30. 9,870 ha Pha Oudom fire, 21 March 2019 where it started 5.8% of the municipality · 11,424 ha in total · 13 days
  31. 4,556 ha Pha Oudom fire, 19 March 2019 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 5,277 ha in total · 22 days
  32. 1,881 ha Pakbeng fire, 18 March 2019 1.1% of the municipality · 3,522 ha in total · 22 days
  33. 2,333 ha Pha Oudom fire, 8 April 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,942 ha in total · 5 days
  34. 444 ha Pakbeng fire, 8 April 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 3,537 ha in total · 5 days
  35. 1,252 ha Pha Oudom fire, 8 April 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,962 ha in total · 5 days
  36. 4,580 ha Pha Oudom fire, 7 April 2017 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 4,557 ha in total · 6 days
  37. 1,106 ha Pha Oudom fire, 12 April 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,173 ha in total · 12 days
  38. 6,183 ha Pha Oudom fire, 3 April 2016 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 6,153 ha in total · 21 days
  39. 4,155 ha Pha Oudom fire, 1 April 2016 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 5,164 ha in total · 18 days
  40. 3,972 ha Pha Oudom fire, March 2016 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 3,954 ha in total · 17 days
  41. 7,064 ha Pha Oudom fire, 28 March 2016 where it started 4.1% of the municipality · 12,233 ha in total · 22 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).