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Wildfires in Thaphabath

Thaphabath, Laos, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2023: 79,203 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 52% 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. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 53 % · 28 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 56 % · 19 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 56 % · 21 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 62 % · 18 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 66 % · 22 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 31° · 63 % · 24 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 32° · 56 % · 21 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 31° · 60 % · 15 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

79,203
hectares burned
52 %
of its area
7
fires
1,530
km²

How many times has Thaphabath burned?

Thaphabath has burned 7 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Thaphabath fire, 7 April 2026, with 931 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 79,203 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 62,439 hectares, 41 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 4× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 3× 26
7
fires
2
years with fire
79,203
cumulative ha
62,439
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 Thaphabath

  1. 931 ha Thaphabath fire, 7 April 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,159 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 56,674 ha Thaphabath fire, 2 April 2026 where it started 37% of the municipality · 75,002 ha in total · 20 days
  3. 2,626 ha Thaphabath fire, 1 April 2026 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,611 ha in total · 17 days
  4. 2,338 ha Thaphabath fire, 22 March 2023 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,327 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 114 ha Longsane fire, 21 March 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 2,512 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 1,829 ha Longsane fire, 20 March 2023 1.2% of the municipality · 3,328 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 14,691 ha Thaphabath fire, 14 March 2023 where it started 9.6% of the municipality · 16,171 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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