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Wildfires in Viengphoukha

Viengphoukha, Laos, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 16,473 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.0% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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. Fri 23 Low 31° · 51 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 30° · 47 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 30° · 53 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 58 % · 19 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 27° · 72 % · 21 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 50 % · 31 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 43 % · 21 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 30° · 45 % · 21 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

16,473
hectares burned
9.0 %
of its area
9
fires
1,839
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Viengphoukha

  1. 2,340 ha Viengphoukha fire, March 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,330 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 2,045 ha Viengphoukha fire, March 2024 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,036 ha in total · 17 days
  3. 1,026 ha Long fire, 25 March 2020 0.6% of the municipality · 2,495 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 1,366 ha Viengphoukha fire, 22 March 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,315 ha in total · 17 days
  5. 2,444 ha Viengphoukha fire, 16 March 2020 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,595 ha in total · 24 days
  6. 899 ha Huoixai fire, March 2019 0.5% of the municipality · 3,256 ha in total · 14 days
  7. 3,000 ha Viengphoukha fire, April 2016 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,984 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 1,140 ha Huoixai fire, March 2016 0.6% of the municipality · 3,163 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 2,213 ha Viengphoukha fire, March 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,203 ha in total · 9 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).