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Wildfires in Viengthong

Viengthong, Laos, has had 18 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 56,500 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 14% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 Very low 32° · 50 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 32° · 51 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 32° · 56 % · 17 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 56 % · 28 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 62 % · 48 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 29° · 53 % · 49 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 30° · 54 % · 23 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 63 % · 27 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

56,500
hectares burned
14 %
of its area
18
fires
4,004
km²

How many times has Viengthong burned?

Viengthong has burned 18 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Mork fire, 8 April 2026, with 86 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 56,500 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 53,719 hectares, 13 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11. 11× 26
18
fires
6
years with fire
56,500
cumulative ha
53,719
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 Viengthong

  1. 86 ha Mork fire, 8 April 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,127 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 2,429 ha Viengthong fire, 7 April 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,419 ha in total · 17 days
  3. 2,213 ha Viengthong fire, 4 April 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,200 ha in total · 14 days
  4. 2,505 ha Viengthong fire, 3 April 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,490 ha in total · 15 days
  5. 2,114 ha Viengthong fire, 3 April 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,101 ha in total · 16 days
  6. 3,896 ha Mork fire, 2 April 2026 1.0% of the municipality · 3,870 ha in total · 15 days
  7. 10,823 ha Viengthong fire, 28 March 2026 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 10,780 ha in total · 21 days
  8. 2,404 ha Viengthong fire, March 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,395 ha in total · 21 days
  9. 6,686 ha Viengthong fire, 27 March 2026 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 6,653 ha in total · 22 days
  10. 218 ha Khamkeuth fire, March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,142 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 9,088 ha Bolikhanh fire, 26 March 2026 2.3% of the municipality · 11,863 ha in total · 23 days
  12. 2,492 ha Viengthong fire, 25 April 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,482 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 1,734 ha Viengthong fire, 18 April 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,253 ha in total · 14 days
  14. 2,059 ha Viengthong fire, March 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,044 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 3,015 ha Viengthong fire, April 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,000 ha in total · 11 days
  16. 615 ha Mork fire, 28 February 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 3,607 ha in total · 15 days
  17. 2,095 ha Viengthong fire, April 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,085 ha in total · 6 days
  18. 2,029 ha Viengthong fire, April 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,020 ha in total · 16 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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