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Wildfires in Phookood

Phookood, Laos, has had 45 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 183,233 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 73% 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 29° · 52 % · 19 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 29° · 50 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 30° · 52 % · 20 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 27° · 65 % · 25 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 26° · 55 % · 35 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 26° · 55 % · 36 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 51 % · 20 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 52 % · 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

183,233
hectares burned
73 %
of its area
45
fires
2,500
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Phookood

  1. 50 ha Hiem fire, March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,320 ha in total · 22 days
  2. 2,463 ha Phookood fire, 26 March 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,615 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 2,674 ha Phookood fire, 19 March 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 5,813 ha in total · 21 days
  4. 3,495 ha Phookood fire, 18 March 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,481 ha in total · 20 days
  5. 19,112 ha Phookood fire, 17 March 2026 where it started 7.6% of the municipality · 23,475 ha in total · 37 days
  6. 9,101 ha Phookood fire, 16 March 2026 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 9,040 ha in total · 27 days
  7. 3,690 ha Phookood fire, 16 March 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,667 ha in total · 22 days
  8. 27,357 ha Phookood fire, 16 March 2026 where it started 11% of the municipality · 36,914 ha in total · 37 days
  9. 887 ha Kham fire, 15 March 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 13,571 ha in total · 29 days
  10. 1,667 ha Phookood fire, 25 March 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,145 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 1,490 ha Phonxay fire, March 2025 0.6% of the municipality · 4,484 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 2,347 ha Phookood fire, 24 March 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,332 ha in total · 8 days
  13. 6,207 ha Phookood fire, 23 March 2025 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 6,178 ha in total · 8 days
  14. 3,573 ha Phookood fire, 21 March 2025 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,558 ha in total · 9 days
  15. 10,851 ha Phookood fire, 21 March 2025 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 11,637 ha in total · 10 days
  16. 910 ha Phonxay fire, 1 April 2024 0.4% of the municipality · 2,610 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 4,426 ha Phookood fire, March 2024 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 4,396 ha in total · 16 days
  18. 2,728 ha Phookood fire, 28 March 2024 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,710 ha in total · 12 days
  19. 5,309 ha Phookood fire, 28 March 2024 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 5,486 ha in total · 13 days
  20. 3,058 ha Phookood fire, 28 March 2024 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,045 ha in total · 12 days
  21. 4,249 ha Phookood fire, 26 March 2024 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 4,224 ha in total · 14 days
  22. 3,384 ha Phookood fire, 20 March 2023 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,363 ha in total · 11 days
  23. 2,436 ha Phookood fire, 16 March 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,426 ha in total · 13 days
  24. 3,701 ha Phoukhoune fire, 16 March 2023 1.5% of the municipality · 6,009 ha in total · 20 days
  25. 2,606 ha Phookood fire, 16 March 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,595 ha in total · 20 days
  26. 2,700 ha Phookood fire, 15 March 2023 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,683 ha in total · 14 days
  27. 12,774 ha Phookood fire, 14 March 2023 where it started 5.1% of the municipality · 23,228 ha in total · 33 days
  28. 3,325 ha Phookood fire, 11 March 2023 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,311 ha in total · 19 days
  29. 3,744 ha Phookood fire, 5 March 2023 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,727 ha in total · 14 days
  30. 151 ha Phonxay fire, 27 February 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 2,092 ha in total · 13 days
  31. 2,247 ha Phookood fire, 5 April 2022 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,234 ha in total · 6 days
  32. 1,637 ha Phookood fire, 5 April 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,410 ha in total · 6 days
  33. 3,358 ha Phookood fire, 3 April 2022 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,337 ha in total · 13 days
  34. 23 ha Phoukhoune fire, 25 March 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,023 ha in total · 10 days
  35. 3,728 ha Phookood fire, March 2021 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 5,102 ha in total · 16 days
  36. 13 ha Hiem fire, 21 March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,111 ha in total · 15 days
  37. 612 ha Phoukhoune fire, 12 March 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 4,338 ha in total · 19 days
  38. 2,055 ha Phookood fire, March 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,046 ha in total · 11 days
  39. 2,747 ha Phookood fire, 30 March 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,728 ha in total · 3 days
  40. 7 ha Phoukhoune fire, 22 March 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 2,401 ha in total · 12 days
  41. 2,765 ha Phookood fire, 6 March 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,752 ha in total · 13 days
  42. 2,330 ha Phookood fire, April 2018 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,320 ha in total · 14 days
  43. 120 ha Phoukhoune fire, 3 April 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 2,823 ha in total · 9 days
  44. 2,313 ha Phookood fire, 21 March 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,300 ha in total · 4 days
  45. 8,813 ha Phookood fire, 20 March 2017 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 8,774 ha in total · 9 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).