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Wildfires in Thongmyxay

Thongmyxay, Laos, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 58,976 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 67% 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. Sun 1 Very low 28° · 67 % · 17 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 27° · 80 % · 22 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 26° · 80 % · 25 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 27° · 70 % · 18 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Very low 27° · 77 % · 18 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very low 25° · 85 % · 26 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 25° · 78 % · 31 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 26° · 68 % · 31 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

58,976
hectares burned
67 %
of its area
8
fires
885
km²

How many times has Thongmyxay burned?

Thongmyxay has burned 8 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Thongmyxay fire, April 2026, with 2,548 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 58,976 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 44,763 hectares, 51 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
8
fires
5
years with fire
58,976
cumulative ha
44,763
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 Thongmyxay

  1. 2,548 ha Thongmyxay fire, April 2026 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 4,372 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 38,921 ha Phiang fire, 20 March 2026 44% of the municipality · 113,987 ha in total · 34 days
  3. 12,513 ha Phiang fire, 15 March 2023 14% of the municipality · 35,527 ha in total · 27 days
  4. 2,243 ha Thongmyxay fire, 26 March 2020 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 2,230 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 2,100 ha Thongmyxay fire, 23 March 2020 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 2,088 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 373 ha Parklai fire, March 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 3,160 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 133 ha Phiang fire, 3 April 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 18,466 ha in total · 22 days
  8. 144 ha Parklai fire, 9 March 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 2,848 ha in total · 22 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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