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Wildfires in Samuoi

Samuoi, Laos, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 14,435 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 23% 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° · 42 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 29° · 51 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 28° · 58 % · 27 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 27° · 58 % · 36 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 26° · 67 % · 40 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 23° · 92 % · 42 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 79 % · 34 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 73 % · 38 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

14,435
hectares burned
23 %
of its area
4
fires
634
km²

How many times has Samuoi burned?

Samuoi has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2019, 2020 and 2026. The most recent: Samuoi fire, March 2026, with 8,701 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 14,435 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 11,773 hectares, 19 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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4
fires
4
years with fire
14,435
cumulative ha
11,773
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 Samuoi

  1. 8,701 ha Samuoi fire, March 2026 where it started 14% of the municipality · 12,812 ha in total · 18 days
  2. 2,046 ha Samuoi fire, March 2020 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 2,296 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 2,090 ha Samuoi fire, March 2019 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 2,080 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 1,598 ha Ta Oi fire, 28 March 2016 2.5% of the municipality · 3,634 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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