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Wildfires in Phongsaly

Phongsaly, Laos, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 13,299 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.6% 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° · 50 % · 17 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 31° · 45 % · 16 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 30° · 49 % · 14 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 30° · 57 % · 26 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 55 % · 29 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 29° · 44 % · 24 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 29° · 48 % · 17 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 29° · 51 % · 15 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

13,299
hectares burned
4.6 %
of its area
6
fires
2,865
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Phongsaly

  1. 2,759 ha Phongsaly fire, 9 April 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,908 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 3,464 ha Phongsaly fire, 29 March 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,446 ha in total · 20 days
  3. 279 ha Samphanh fire, 4 April 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 8,887 ha in total · 20 days
  4. 2,117 ha Phongsaly fire, 29 March 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,161 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 2,704 ha Phongsaly fire, 28 March 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,691 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 1,975 ha Phongsaly fire, April 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,018 ha in total · 4 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).