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Wildfires in Sanxay

Sanxay, Laos, has had 14 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 34,047 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 12% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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. Sun 25 Very low 32° · 45 % · 15 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Low 30° · 52 % · 20 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Low 31° · 48 % · 22 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 57 % · 24 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 55 % · 22 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 59 % · 24 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 60 % · 23 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 63 % · 14 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

34,047
hectares burned
12 %
of its area
14
fires
2,856
km²

How many times has Sanxay burned?

Sanxay has burned 14 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Sanxay fire, 24 March 2026, with 2,245 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 34,047 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 26,568 hectares, 9.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 4× 26
14
fires
6
years with fire
34,047
cumulative ha
26,568
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 Sanxay

  1. 2,245 ha Sanxay fire, 24 March 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,229 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 3,933 ha Sanxay fire, 23 March 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 6,607 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 2,705 ha Sanxay fire, 20 March 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,690 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 6,482 ha Sanxay fire, 16 March 2026 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 6,441 ha in total · 25 days
  5. 2,147 ha Sanxay fire, March 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,133 ha in total · 14 days
  6. 2,320 ha Sanxay fire, 22 March 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,304 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 3,018 ha Sanxay fire, 12 March 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,001 ha in total · 15 days
  8. 1,811 ha Phouvong fire, 22 February 2024 0.6% of the municipality · 2,369 ha in total · 20 days
  9. 3,372 ha Sanxay fire, 3 March 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,847 ha in total · 13 days
  10. 2,239 ha Sanxay fire, 24 February 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,227 ha in total · 21 days
  11. 959 ha Xaysetha fire, February 2023 0.3% of the municipality · 2,281 ha in total · 31 days
  12. 437 ha Xaysetha fire, March 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 2,096 ha in total · 16 days
  13. 2 ha Xaysetha fire, February 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,451 ha in total · 59 days
  14. 2,377 ha Sanxay fire, March 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,363 ha in total · 12 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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