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Wildfires in Xamneua

Xamneua, Laos, has had 35 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 100,205 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 32% 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. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 62 % · 26 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 25° · 63 % · 24 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 26° · 64 % · 20 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 26° · 60 % · 28 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 24° · 79 % · 26 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 25° · 63 % · 25 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 26° · 60 % · 16 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 25° · 65 % · 25 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

100,205
hectares burned
32 %
of its area
35
fires
3,175
km²

How many times has Xamneua burned?

Xamneua has burned 35 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Xamneua fire, 13 April 2026, with 2,262 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 100,205 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 76,243 hectares, 24 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 14× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10.   25
  11. 8× 26
35
fires
8
years with fire
100,205
cumulative ha
76,243
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 Xamneua

  1. 2,262 ha Xamneua fire, 13 April 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,254 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 291 ha Huameuang fire, 2 April 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 3,264 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 2,364 ha Xamneua fire, 2 April 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,349 ha in total · 16 days
  4. 197 ha Add fire, April 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 17,955 ha in total · 17 days
  5. 2,662 ha Xamneua fire, 2 April 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,647 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 404 ha Xiengkhor fire, April 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 3,434 ha in total · 15 days
  7. 5,301 ha Xamneua fire, 1 April 2026 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 5,273 ha in total · 17 days
  8. 4 ha Huameuang fire, 20 March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 7,203 ha in total · 28 days
  9. 2,487 ha Xamneua fire, 2 April 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,472 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 266 ha Xamneua fire, 1 April 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,206 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 2,380 ha Xamneua fire, March 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,369 ha in total · 11 days
  12. 11,940 ha Xamneua fire, 4 April 2023 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 19,664 ha in total · 22 days
  13. 5,936 ha Xamneua fire, 3 April 2023 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 5,905 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 57 ha Xamtay fire, April 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 2,177 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 53 ha Add fire, March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,460 ha in total · 3 days
  16. 20 ha Xon fire, 19 March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 3,540 ha in total · 15 days
  17. 9,255 ha Xamneua fire, March 2020 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 9,205 ha in total · 17 days
  18. 3,227 ha Xamneua fire, 17 April 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,207 ha in total · 10 days
  19. 4,915 ha Xamneua fire, 10 April 2019 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 4,886 ha in total · 19 days
  20. 44 ha Add fire, 10 April 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 6,461 ha in total · 20 days
  21. 3,475 ha Xamneua fire, April 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,457 ha in total · 5 days
  22. 3,290 ha Xamneua fire, 12 April 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,287 ha in total · 6 days
  23. 2,952 ha Xamneua fire, 4 April 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,934 ha in total · 4 days
  24. 1,434 ha Xamneua fire, 3 April 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,756 ha in total · 15 days
  25. 2,411 ha Xamneua fire, 18 March 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,400 ha in total · 6 days
  26. 4,730 ha Xamneua fire, 16 March 2016 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 4,702 ha in total · 5 days
  27. 4,468 ha Xamneua fire, 15 March 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 4,445 ha in total · 9 days
  28. 4,480 ha Xamneua fire, 12 March 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 4,459 ha in total · 12 days
  29. 3,252 ha Xamneua fire, 11 March 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,652 ha in total · 13 days
  30. 2,601 ha Xamneua fire, 7 March 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,588 ha in total · 5 days
  31. 628 ha Xamneua fire, 5 March 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,459 ha in total · 6 days
  32. 3,095 ha Xamneua fire, 2 March 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 7,563 ha in total · 16 days
  33. 2,035 ha Xamneua fire, 2 March 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,023 ha in total · 9 days
  34. 5,103 ha Xamneua fire, 1 March 2016 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 5,079 ha in total · 10 days
  35. 2,188 ha Xamneua fire, February 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,176 ha in total · 7 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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