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Wildfires in Samphanh

Samphanh, Laos, has had 18 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 47,392 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 18% 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. Sat 24 Low 29° · 53 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 30° · 49 % · 20 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 28° · 65 % · 26 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 27° · 62 % · 26 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Low 27° · 50 % · 25 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Low 28° · 47 % · 22 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 53 % · 23 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 60 % · 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

47,392
hectares burned
18 %
of its area
18
fires
2,628
km²

How many times has Samphanh burned?

Samphanh has burned 18 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Samphanh fire, 8 April 2026, with 2,467 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 47,392 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 31,500 hectares, 12 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 4× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11. 4× 26
18
fires
8
years with fire
47,392
cumulative ha
31,500
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 Samphanh

  1. 2,467 ha Samphanh fire, 8 April 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,456 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 2,321 ha Samphanh fire, 30 March 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,315 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 1,915 ha Samphanh fire, 28 March 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,623 ha in total · 17 days
  4. 2,438 ha Samphanh fire, 28 March 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,430 ha in total · 18 days
  5. 3,679 ha Samphanh fire, 31 March 2024 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,664 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 3,182 ha Samphanh fire, 27 March 2024 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,176 ha in total · 14 days
  7. 8,651 ha Samphanh fire, 4 April 2023 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 8,887 ha in total · 20 days
  8. 2 ha May fire, 3 April 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 2,545 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 4,145 ha Samphanh fire, 3 April 2023 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 4,128 ha in total · 18 days
  10. 64 ha May fire, 2 April 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 7,677 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 202 ha Khua fire, April 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 6,002 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 822 ha May fire, 15 April 2021 0.3% of the municipality · 2,488 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 2,817 ha Samphanh fire, March 2021 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,917 ha in total · 10 days
  14. 4,835 ha Samphanh fire, March 2020 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 4,865 ha in total · 11 days
  15. 2,099 ha Samphanh fire, 11 April 2018 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,092 ha in total · 3 days
  16. 2,306 ha Samphanh fire, 9 April 2018 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,301 ha in total · 7 days
  17. 3,119 ha Samphanh fire, 11 April 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,105 ha in total · 7 days
  18. 2,326 ha Samphanh fire, 3 April 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,318 ha in total · 15 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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