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Wildfires in Xay

Xay, Laos: 71 fires since 2016 burned 262,587 hectares inside its boundaries, 1.2 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).

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 30° · 50 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 31° · 47 % · 28 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 30° · 49 % · 19 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 30° · 57 % · 23 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 59 % · 32 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 52 % · 32 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 28° · 53 % · 20 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 29° · 50 % · 17 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

262,587
hectares burned
1.2×
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
71
fires
2,137
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Xay

  1. 3,253 ha Xay fire, 10 April 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,237 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 1,160 ha Namor fire, March 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 4,848 ha in total · 27 days
  3. 2,878 ha Xay fire, 28 March 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,866 ha in total · 21 days
  4. 400 ha Xay fire, 24 March 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,504 ha in total · 15 days
  5. 1,233 ha Nambak fire, 24 March 2026 0.6% of the municipality · 13,537 ha in total · 21 days
  6. 39,721 ha Xay fire, 24 March 2026 where it started 19% of the municipality · 50,968 ha in total · 33 days
  7. 2,732 ha Xay fire, 23 March 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,722 ha in total · 15 days
  8. 312 ha Beng fire, March 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 2,486 ha in total · 26 days
  9. 5,927 ha Xay fire, 23 March 2026 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 5,900 ha in total · 24 days
  10. 1,537 ha Namor fire, 18 April 2025 0.7% of the municipality · 5,763 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 2,728 ha Xay fire, April 2025 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,716 ha in total · 9 days
  12. 1,747 ha Xay fire, 23 April 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,279 ha in total · 13 days
  13. 1,928 ha Xay fire, 15 April 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,229 ha in total · 10 days
  14. 1,500 ha Beng fire, 13 April 2024 0.7% of the municipality · 5,623 ha in total · 19 days
  15. 2,459 ha Xay fire, 13 April 2024 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,447 ha in total · 12 days
  16. 72 ha Beng fire, 6 April 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 2,024 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 4,056 ha Xay fire, March 2024 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 4,036 ha in total · 12 days
  18. 2,642 ha Nga fire, 24 March 2024 1.2% of the municipality · 7,906 ha in total · 22 days
  19. 669 ha Nalae fire, April 2023 0.3% of the municipality · 3,443 ha in total · 17 days
  20. 2,586 ha Namor fire, March 2023 1.2% of the municipality · 8,366 ha in total · 34 days
  21. 6,150 ha Xay fire, March 2023 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 6,125 ha in total · 28 days
  22. 8,526 ha Xay fire, 26 March 2023 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 8,581 ha in total · 29 days
  23. 3,123 ha Xay fire, 24 March 2023 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,109 ha in total · 14 days
  24. 5,339 ha Beng fire, 23 March 2023 2.5% of the municipality · 12,942 ha in total · 22 days
  25. 2,034 ha Xay fire, 20 March 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,026 ha in total · 14 days
  26. 19,535 ha Xay fire, 19 March 2023 where it started 9.1% of the municipality · 60,413 ha in total · 39 days
  27. 828 ha La fire, April 2022 0.4% of the municipality · 3,356 ha in total · 3 days
  28. 175 ha Namor fire, 25 April 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 6,722 ha in total · 10 days
  29. 1,353 ha Namor fire, 25 April 2022 0.6% of the municipality · 3,197 ha in total · 10 days
  30. 2,079 ha Xay fire, 25 April 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,069 ha in total · 4 days
  31. 4,414 ha Xay fire, 24 April 2022 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 5,457 ha in total · 5 days
  32. 388 ha Namor fire, 23 April 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 4,884 ha in total · 6 days
  33. 1,710 ha Namor fire, 11 April 2022 0.8% of the municipality · 2,413 ha in total · 6 days
  34. 30 ha Namor fire, 5 April 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 2,252 ha in total · 13 days
  35. 2,947 ha Xay fire, 4 April 2022 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,934 ha in total · 8 days
  36. 5,654 ha Xay fire, 21 April 2021 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 5,630 ha in total · 4 days
  37. 3,111 ha Namor fire, 20 April 2021 1.5% of the municipality · 6,631 ha in total · 5 days
  38. 32 ha Namor fire, 20 April 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 5,144 ha in total · 5 days
  39. 4,505 ha Xay fire, 20 April 2021 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 7,436 ha in total · 5 days
  40. 9 ha La fire, 20 April 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,403 ha in total · 5 days
  41. 2,131 ha Xay fire, March 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,121 ha in total · 9 days
  42. 3,994 ha Xay fire, 17 April 2020 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 3,975 ha in total · 7 days
  43. 2,390 ha Xay fire, 11 April 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 4,092 ha in total · 2 days
  44. 21 ha Nalae fire, March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,098 ha in total · 6 days
  45. 1,778 ha Nga fire, 20 March 2020 0.8% of the municipality · 9,420 ha in total · 16 days
  46. 2,084 ha Xay fire, 20 March 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,075 ha in total · 19 days
  47. 9,295 ha Xay fire, 17 March 2020 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 11,597 ha in total · 22 days
  48. 2,469 ha Beng fire, 16 March 2020 1.2% of the municipality · 7,154 ha in total · 23 days
  49. 2,083 ha Xay fire, April 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,809 ha in total · 14 days
  50. 229 ha Beng fire, 31 March 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 2,210 ha in total · 4 days
  51. 1,563 ha Beng fire, 20 March 2019 0.7% of the municipality · 4,543 ha in total · 13 days
  52. 2,510 ha Xay fire, March 2019 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,499 ha in total · 19 days
  53. 7,733 ha Namor fire, March 2019 3.6% of the municipality · 23,964 ha in total · 26 days
  54. 920 ha Beng fire, 12 April 2018 0.4% of the municipality · 2,709 ha in total · 3 days
  55. 1,778 ha Xay fire, 10 April 2018 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,131 ha in total · 4 days
  56. 8 ha Beng fire, 9 April 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 3,600 ha in total · 5 days
  57. 25,982 ha Xay fire, 5 April 2018 where it started 12% of the municipality · 31,315 ha in total · 10 days
  58. 1,613 ha Namor fire, April 2017 0.8% of the municipality · 29,869 ha in total · 14 days
  59. 2,126 ha Xay fire, 10 April 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,113 ha in total · 2 days
  60. 2,027 ha Xay fire, 8 April 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,018 ha in total · 5 days
  61. 2,266 ha Xay fire, 6 April 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,256 ha in total · 7 days
  62. 1,286 ha Nambak fire, 6 April 2017 0.6% of the municipality · 3,696 ha in total · 7 days
  63. 748 ha Nga fire, 5 April 2017 0.4% of the municipality · 4,984 ha in total · 8 days
  64. 3,002 ha Xay fire, 5 April 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,130 ha in total · 7 days
  65. 2,850 ha Xay fire, 4 April 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,837 ha in total · 9 days
  66. 3,939 ha Xay fire, 4 April 2017 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,920 ha in total · 9 days
  67. 1,410 ha Beng fire, 3 April 2017 0.7% of the municipality · 3,623 ha in total · 10 days
  68. 55 ha Beng fire, 3 April 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 9,651 ha in total · 10 days
  69. 117 ha Beng fire, April 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 2,179 ha in total · 10 days
  70. 4,658 ha Xay fire, 3 April 2016 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 4,640 ha in total · 20 days
  71. 18,043 ha Xay fire, 3 April 2016 where it started 8.4% of the municipality · 23,891 ha in total · 26 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).