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Wildfires in Sanamxay

Sanamxay, Laos, has had 22 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 64,748 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 29% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 49 % · 25 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 60 % · 24 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 77 % · 22 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 73 % · 26 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 72 % · 30 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 72 % · 22 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 63 % · 27 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 29° · 88 % · 28 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

64,748
hectares burned
29 %
of its area
22
fires
2,231
km²

How many times has Sanamxay burned?

Sanamxay has burned 22 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Sanamxay fire, March 2026, with 1,784 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 64,748 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 46,328 hectares, 21 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 6× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 4× 24
  10.   25
  11. 5× 26
22
fires
6
years with fire
64,748
cumulative ha
46,328
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 Sanamxay

  1. 1,784 ha Sanamxay fire, March 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,608 ha in total · 21 days
  2. 217 ha Paksxong fire, 8 March 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 7,655 ha in total · 43 days
  3. 2,317 ha Sanamxay fire, 10 February 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,304 ha in total · 14 days
  4. 240 ha Sanamxay fire, 8 February 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,282 ha in total · 16 days
  5. 640 ha Paksxong fire, February 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 3,775 ha in total · 24 days
  6. 3,846 ha Sanamxay fire, 19 February 2024 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 3,824 ha in total · 32 days
  7. 7,290 ha Sanamxay fire, 15 February 2024 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 7,246 ha in total · 44 days
  8. 103 ha Paksxong fire, February 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 2,106 ha in total · 27 days
  9. 2,383 ha Sanamxay fire, 10 February 2024 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,370 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 18,140 ha Sanamxay fire, February 2023 where it started 8.1% of the municipality · 18,030 ha in total · 46 days
  11. 85 ha Paksxong fire, February 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 3,235 ha in total · 23 days
  12. 2,049 ha Sanamxay fire, January 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,038 ha in total · 27 days
  13. 3,150 ha Sanamxay fire, 4 April 2022 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,136 ha in total · 10 days
  14. 6,537 ha Sanamxay fire, 3 April 2022 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 6,499 ha in total · 11 days
  15. 2,943 ha Sanamxay fire, March 2022 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,925 ha in total · 8 days
  16. 2,262 ha Sanamxay fire, 24 February 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,248 ha in total · 18 days
  17. 25 ha Paksxong fire, February 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 2,464 ha in total · 16 days
  18. 2,089 ha Sanamxay fire, 23 February 2022 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,075 ha in total · 15 days
  19. 91 ha Paksxong fire, February 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,529 ha in total · 19 days
  20. 4,839 ha Sanamxay fire, 19 February 2020 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 4,807 ha in total · 17 days
  21. 3,716 ha Sanamxay fire, 17 February 2020 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 3,693 ha in total · 20 days
  22. 1 ha Paksxong fire, February 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 3,767 ha in total · 25 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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