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Wildfires in Tonpheung

Tonpheung, Laos, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 29,588 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 34% 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. Sat 24 Low 31° · 50 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 30° · 54 % · 20 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 28° · 69 % · 23 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 27° · 70 % · 24 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 57 % · 22 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 60 % · 23 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 56 % · 20 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 69 % · 23 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

29,588
hectares burned
34 %
of its area
10
fires
879
km²

How many times has Tonpheung burned?

Tonpheung has burned 10 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Tonpheung fire, April 2026, with 1,772 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 29,588 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 23,140 hectares, 26 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
10
fires
8
years with fire
29,588
cumulative ha
23,140
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 Tonpheung

  1. 1,772 ha Tonpheung fire, April 2026 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,118 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 2,172 ha Tonpheung fire, April 2023 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 2,159 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 2,117 ha Tonpheung fire, April 2022 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 2,106 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 6,778 ha Tonpheung fire, 22 March 2020 where it started 7.7% of the municipality · 9,973 ha in total · 18 days
  5. 3,408 ha Tonpheung fire, 17 March 2020 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 7,437 ha in total · 24 days
  6. 5,060 ha Tonpheung fire, April 2019 where it started 5.8% of the municipality · 5,031 ha in total · 22 days
  7. 3,495 ha Tonpheung fire, May 2018 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 3,475 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 1,100 ha Meung fire, May 2017 1.2% of the municipality · 2,051 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 3,677 ha Tonpheung fire, April 2016 where it started 4.2% of the municipality · 3,655 ha in total · 13 days
  10. 9 ha Meung fire, 10 April 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 3,329 ha in total · 8 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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