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Wildfires in Xayabury

Xayabury, Laos, has had 52 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 127,093 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 56% 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. Sat 24 Low 30° · 57 % · 18 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 30° · 66 % · 23 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 28° · 72 % · 24 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 60 % · 26 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 61 % · 23 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 57 % · 17 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 65 % · 19 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 67 % · 21 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

127,093
hectares burned
56 %
of its area
52
fires
2,270
km²

How many times has Xayabury burned?

Xayabury has burned 52 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Nan fire, 6 April 2026, with 51 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 5× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 5× 19
  5. 6× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 7× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 14× 26
52
fires
11
years with fire
127,093
cumulative ha
6 Apr 2026
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 Xayabury

  1. 51 ha Nan fire, 6 April 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 4,095 ha in total · 17 days
  2. 1,795 ha Xaysathan fire, 2 April 2026 0.8% of the municipality · 4,060 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 2,382 ha Xaysathan fire, 2 April 2026 1.0% of the municipality · 4,562 ha in total · 20 days
  4. 2,331 ha Xayabury fire, 30 March 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,319 ha in total · 18 days
  5. 2,122 ha Xayabury fire, 28 March 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,112 ha in total · 23 days
  6. 4,580 ha Xayabury fire, 27 March 2026 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 12,097 ha in total · 22 days
  7. 3,921 ha Xayabury fire, 23 March 2026 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 3,898 ha in total · 16 days
  8. 2,097 ha Xayabury fire, 22 March 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,083 ha in total · 9 days
  9. 2,059 ha Xayabury fire, 21 March 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,047 ha in total · 13 days
  10. 2,412 ha Xayabury fire, 20 March 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,405 ha in total · 12 days
  11. 2 ha Phiang fire, 20 March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,139 ha in total · 26 days
  12. 11,296 ha Phiang fire, 20 March 2026 5.0% of the municipality · 11,286 ha in total · 33 days
  13. 2,136 ha Xayabury fire, 19 March 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,123 ha in total · 16 days
  14. 310 ha Chomphet fire, 19 March 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 5,166 ha in total · 32 days
  15. 2,308 ha Xayabury fire, 27 March 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,327 ha in total · 9 days
  16. 2,220 ha Xayabury fire, 21 March 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,206 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 2,393 ha Xayabury fire, 29 March 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,378 ha in total · 14 days
  18. 2,715 ha Xayabury fire, 29 March 2024 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,698 ha in total · 12 days
  19. 3,089 ha Xayabury fire, March 2024 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,075 ha in total · 17 days
  20. 569 ha Xayabury fire, April 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,639 ha in total · 9 days
  21. 637 ha Xaysathan fire, April 2023 0.3% of the municipality · 4,157 ha in total · 6 days
  22. 4,705 ha Xayabury fire, 22 March 2023 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 4,687 ha in total · 16 days
  23. 2,158 ha Chomphet fire, 21 March 2023 1.0% of the municipality · 6,201 ha in total · 21 days
  24. 2,897 ha Xayabury fire, 20 March 2023 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,884 ha in total · 17 days
  25. 3,313 ha Parklai fire, 16 March 2023 1.5% of the municipality · 11,260 ha in total · 33 days
  26. 2,334 ha Xayabury fire, 16 March 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,320 ha in total · 11 days
  27. 2,412 ha Xayabury fire, April 2022 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,401 ha in total · 11 days
  28. 2,091 ha Xayabury fire, 18 March 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,079 ha in total · 11 days
  29. 2,110 ha Xayabury fire, 10 March 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,098 ha in total · 8 days
  30. 5,064 ha Xayabury fire, 27 March 2020 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 5,117 ha in total · 13 days
  31. 1,564 ha Xaysathan fire, 27 March 2020 0.7% of the municipality · 5,039 ha in total · 7 days
  32. 3,919 ha Xayabury fire, 19 March 2020 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 3,900 ha in total · 21 days
  33. 1,332 ha Xayabury fire, 17 March 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,470 ha in total · 15 days
  34. 259 ha Phiang fire, 11 March 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 6,343 ha in total · 23 days
  35. 3,008 ha Xayabury fire, 9 March 2020 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,990 ha in total · 19 days
  36. 2,009 ha Xayabury fire, April 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,013 ha in total · 9 days
  37. 2,935 ha Xayabury fire, 30 March 2019 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,917 ha in total · 13 days
  38. 2,287 ha Xayabury fire, 23 March 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,274 ha in total · 15 days
  39. 4,482 ha Phiang fire, 9 March 2019 2.0% of the municipality · 20,323 ha in total · 34 days
  40. 1,841 ha Xayabury fire, 4 March 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,026 ha in total · 16 days
  41. 328 ha Chomphet fire, 8 April 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 2,849 ha in total · 7 days
  42. 2,247 ha Xayabury fire, March 2018 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,233 ha in total · 6 days
  43. 758 ha Phiang fire, March 2018 0.3% of the municipality · 3,658 ha in total · 14 days
  44. 2,652 ha Xayabury fire, April 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,639 ha in total · 5 days
  45. 3,916 ha Phiang fire, 4 April 2017 1.7% of the municipality · 8,243 ha in total · 9 days
  46. 2,061 ha Xayabury fire, 20 March 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,048 ha in total · 9 days
  47. 2,517 ha Xayabury fire, 20 March 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,507 ha in total · 8 days
  48. 30 ha Phiang fire, March 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 2,444 ha in total · 4 days
  49. 149 ha Chomphet fire, 12 April 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 2,131 ha in total · 6 days
  50. 3,262 ha Xayabury fire, 1 April 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 5,336 ha in total · 16 days
  51. 4,147 ha Xayabury fire, March 2016 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 4,122 ha in total · 16 days
  52. 2,881 ha Xayabury fire, 29 March 2016 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,864 ha in total · 18 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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