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Wildfires in Viengxay

Viengxay, Laos, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 5,833 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.8% 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. Sun 25 Very low 30° · 60 % · 21 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 28° · 68 % · 29 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 27° · 65 % · 34 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 58 % · 26 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 70 % · 22 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 70 % · 25 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 57 % · 19 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 57 % · 14 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

5,833
hectares burned
3.8 %
of its area
3
fires
1,545
km²

How many times has Viengxay burned?

Viengxay has burned 3 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2016. The most recent: Xamneua fire, 12 April 2016, with 11 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 3× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
1
years with fire
5,833
cumulative ha
12 Apr 2016
most recent

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 Viengxay

  1. 11 ha Xamneua fire, 12 April 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 3,287 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 4,346 ha Xamneua fire, 3 April 2016 2.8% of the municipality · 5,756 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 1,476 ha Sopbao fire, March 2016 1.0% of the municipality · 5,442 ha in total · 3 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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