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Wildfires in Phoukhoune

Phoukhoune, Laos, has had 41 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 119,589 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 72% 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 28° · 56 % · 20 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 28° · 58 % · 17 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 25° · 79 % · 23 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 26° · 58 % · 31 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 26° · 54 % · 27 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 60 % · 21 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 63 % · 22 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 26° · 72 % · 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

119,589
hectares burned
72 %
of its area
41
fires
1,672
km²

How many times has Phoukhoune burned?

Phoukhoune has burned 41 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Phoukhoune fire, 27 March 2026, with 4,108 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 119,589 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 73,289 hectares, 44 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 6× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 4× 23
  9. 5× 24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 8× 26
41
fires
11
years with fire
119,589
cumulative ha
73,289
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 Phoukhoune

  1. 4,108 ha Phoukhoune fire, 27 March 2026 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 4,082 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 320 ha Phonxay fire, 25 March 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 2,494 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 2,009 ha Phoukhoune fire, 21 March 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,805 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 20,179 ha Phoukhoune fire, 20 March 2026 where it started 12% of the municipality · 23,349 ha in total · 28 days
  5. 169 ha Xieng Ngeun fire, 19 March 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 2,306 ha in total · 16 days
  6. 1,806 ha Phookood fire, 19 March 2026 1.1% of the municipality · 5,813 ha in total · 21 days
  7. 13,542 ha Phoukhoune fire, 19 March 2026 where it started 8.1% of the municipality · 13,478 ha in total · 21 days
  8. 4,465 ha Phookood fire, 17 March 2026 2.7% of the municipality · 23,475 ha in total · 37 days
  9. 487 ha Phookood fire, 25 March 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 2,145 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 477 ha Phonxay fire, March 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 4,484 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 1,295 ha Phoukhoune fire, 23 March 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,262 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 5,324 ha Phoukhoune fire, 22 March 2025 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 5,298 ha in total · 9 days
  13. 1,051 ha Phonxay fire, 4 April 2024 0.6% of the municipality · 2,785 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 101 ha Phonxay fire, 1 April 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 2,610 ha in total · 8 days
  15. 2,300 ha Phoukhoune fire, April 2024 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,287 ha in total · 8 days
  16. 202 ha Phookood fire, 28 March 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 5,486 ha in total · 13 days
  17. 615 ha Xieng Ngeun fire, March 2024 0.4% of the municipality · 2,576 ha in total · 13 days
  18. 574 ha Xieng Ngeun fire, 22 March 2023 0.3% of the municipality · 2,869 ha in total · 7 days
  19. 4,124 ha Phoukhoune fire, 21 March 2023 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 4,102 ha in total · 13 days
  20. 5,620 ha Phoukhoune fire, 21 March 2023 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 5,586 ha in total · 7 days
  21. 2,334 ha Phoukhoune fire, 16 March 2023 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 6,009 ha in total · 20 days
  22. 783 ha Phookood fire, 5 April 2022 0.5% of the municipality · 2,410 ha in total · 6 days
  23. 3,704 ha Phoukhoune fire, February 2022 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 3,687 ha in total · 9 days
  24. 2,020 ha Phoukhoune fire, 26 March 2021 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,008 ha in total · 9 days
  25. 2,010 ha Phoukhoune fire, 25 March 2021 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,023 ha in total · 10 days
  26. 5,013 ha Phoukhoune fire, 25 March 2021 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 4,986 ha in total · 10 days
  27. 2,069 ha Phoukhoune fire, 17 March 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,057 ha in total · 7 days
  28. 2,908 ha Phoukhoune fire, 12 March 2020 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,891 ha in total · 11 days
  29. 3,746 ha Phoukhoune fire, 12 March 2020 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 4,338 ha in total · 19 days
  30. 2,356 ha Phoukhoune fire, 10 March 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,791 ha in total · 10 days
  31. 2,405 ha Phoukhoune fire, 22 March 2019 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,401 ha in total · 12 days
  32. 789 ha Xieng Ngeun fire, 10 March 2019 0.5% of the municipality · 2,032 ha in total · 8 days
  33. 2,428 ha Phoukhoune fire, 8 March 2019 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,415 ha in total · 11 days
  34. 3,680 ha Phoukhoune fire, April 2018 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 3,658 ha in total · 7 days
  35. 2,272 ha Phoukhoune fire, 4 April 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,259 ha in total · 8 days
  36. 2,437 ha Phoukhoune fire, 4 April 2017 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,422 ha in total · 8 days
  37. 2,716 ha Phoukhoune fire, 3 April 2017 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,823 ha in total · 9 days
  38. 2,266 ha Phoukhoune fire, 22 March 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,651 ha in total · 4 days
  39. 2,155 ha Phoukhoune fire, 22 March 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,145 ha in total · 4 days
  40. 1,951 ha Phoukhoune fire, 22 March 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,267 ha in total · 5 days
  41. 782 ha Xieng Ngeun fire, 1 April 2016 0.5% of the municipality · 2,804 ha in total · 8 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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