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Wildfires in Xanakharm

Xanakharm, Laos, has had 16 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 114,312 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 60% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 48 % · 29 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 51 % · 24 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 58 % · 23 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 64 % · 21 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 68 % · 22 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 62 % · 14 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 66 % · 23 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 63 % · 21 km/h
  9. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 62 % · 16 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

114,312
hectares burned
60 %
of its area
16
fires
1,894
km²

How many times has Xanakharm burned?

Xanakharm has burned 16 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Meun fire, April 2026, with 1,098 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 114,312 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 71,605 hectares, 38 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 2× 26
16
fires
9
years with fire
114,312
cumulative ha
71,605
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 Xanakharm

  1. 1,098 ha Meun fire, April 2026 0.6% of the municipality · 5,492 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 40,807 ha Xanakharm fire, March 2026 where it started 22% of the municipality · 45,327 ha in total · 37 days
  3. 455 ha Mad fire, 20 March 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 2,022 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 6,606 ha Xanakharm fire, 31 March 2023 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 6,572 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 33,372 ha Xanakharm fire, 14 March 2023 where it started 18% of the municipality · 34,889 ha in total · 39 days
  6. 2,294 ha Xanakharm fire, April 2021 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,516 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 4,025 ha Xanakharm fire, March 2020 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 3,999 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 676 ha Mad fire, 27 March 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 2,049 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 4,845 ha Xanakharm fire, April 2019 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 4,815 ha in total · 17 days
  10. 2,059 ha Xanakharm fire, March 2018 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,047 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 2,086 ha Xanakharm fire, 4 April 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,351 ha in total · 9 days
  12. 2,069 ha Xanakharm fire, 3 April 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 5,134 ha in total · 10 days
  13. 2,783 ha Xanakharm fire, April 2016 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,765 ha in total · 16 days
  14. 2,021 ha Xanakharm fire, 17 March 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,008 ha in total · 13 days
  15. 5,864 ha Xanakharm fire, 17 March 2016 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 5,834 ha in total · 8 days
  16. 3,251 ha Xanakharm fire, 16 March 2016 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 3,236 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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