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Wildfires in Sopbao

Sopbao, Laos, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 24,264 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 23% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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 29° · 52 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 28° · 69 % · 23 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 26° · 75 % · 30 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 25° · 67 % · 35 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 25° · 57 % · 28 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 25° · 70 % · 24 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 24° · 76 % · 30 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 27° · 70 % · 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

24,264
hectares burned
23 %
of its area
12
fires
1,039
km²

How many times has Sopbao burned?

Sopbao has burned 12 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Sopbao fire, 9 April 2026, with 3,036 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 24,264 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 18,582 hectares, 18 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 4× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
12
fires
7
years with fire
24,264
cumulative ha
18,582
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 Sopbao

  1. 3,036 ha Sopbao fire, 9 April 2026 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 3,021 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 3,175 ha Sopbao fire, 5 April 2026 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 3,159 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 3,312 ha Xiengkhor fire, 17 April 2023 3.2% of the municipality · 4,692 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 1,085 ha Xiengkhor fire, April 2021 1.0% of the municipality · 3,784 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 1,341 ha Sopbao fire, 18 April 2019 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,380 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 2,691 ha Sopbao fire, 17 April 2019 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 2,677 ha in total · 10 days
  7. 2,591 ha Sopbao fire, 15 April 2019 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 2,577 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 144 ha Xiengkhor fire, 9 April 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 2,293 ha in total · 14 days
  9. 365 ha Xiengkhor fire, May 2018 0.4% of the municipality · 4,702 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 2,309 ha Sopbao fire, April 2017 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,297 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 223 ha Xiengkhor fire, 30 April 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 2,773 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 3,993 ha Sopbao fire, March 2016 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 5,442 ha in total · 3 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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