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Wildfires in Phonhong

Phonhong, Laos, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2023: 4,316 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.3% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Sat 24 Very low 32° · 60 % · 16 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 31° · 66 % · 25 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 71 % · 21 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 65 % · 20 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 64 % · 18 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 61 % · 15 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 66 % · 22 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 67 % · 20 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

4,316
hectares burned
7.3 %
of its area
4
fires
588
km²

How many times has Phonhong burned?

Phonhong has burned 4 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Vangvieng fire, 1 April 2026, with 295 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,316 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,382 hectares, 5.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
4
fires
2
years with fire
4,316
cumulative ha
3,382
distinct ha

Fires larger than 2,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Laos →

Fires that entered Phonhong

  1. 295 ha Vangvieng fire, 1 April 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 17,970 ha in total · 23 days
  2. 3,081 ha Phonhong fire, March 2026 where it started 5.2% of the municipality · 8,857 ha in total · 38 days
  3. 38 ha Hinherb fire, April 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 4,730 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 902 ha Hinherb fire, April 2023 1.5% of the municipality · 2,528 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).

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