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Wildfires in Xaybuathong

Xaybuathong, Laos, has had 24 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 79,266 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 85% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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 30 Very low 32° · 57 % · 39 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Low 33° · 50 % · 29 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Low 33° · 51 % · 22 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Moderate 34° · 41 % · 39 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 33° · 58 % · 35 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 56 % · 26 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 31° · 58 % · 30 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 32° · 63 % · 40 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

79,266
hectares burned
85 %
of its area
24
fires
927
km²

How many times has Xaybuathong burned?

Xaybuathong has burned 24 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Xaybuathong fire, March 2026, with 3,028 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 79,266 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 39,767 hectares, 43 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 5× 21
  7. 4× 22
  8. 5× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
24
fires
9
years with fire
79,266
cumulative ha
39,767
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 Xaybuathong

  1. 3,028 ha Xaybuathong fire, March 2026 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 3,011 ha in total · 19 days
  2. 3,399 ha Xaybuathong fire, March 2025 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 3,380 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 5,222 ha Xaybuathong fire, 6 March 2023 where it started 5.6% of the municipality · 5,192 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 2,037 ha Xaybuathong fire, 5 March 2023 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,233 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 3,980 ha Xaybuathong fire, 5 March 2023 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 4,623 ha in total · 17 days
  6. 2,384 ha Xaybuathong fire, 1 March 2023 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 2,371 ha in total · 11 days
  7. 2,903 ha Xaybuathong fire, February 2023 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 2,994 ha in total · 18 days
  8. 2,801 ha Xaybuathong fire, 10 March 2022 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 2,786 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 2,539 ha Xaybuathong fire, 1 March 2022 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 3,723 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 2,880 ha Xaybuathong fire, 25 February 2022 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 3,060 ha in total · 19 days
  11. 4,874 ha Xaybuathong fire, 25 February 2022 where it started 5.3% of the municipality · 4,846 ha in total · 22 days
  12. 1,441 ha Xaybuathong fire, 11 March 2021 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,957 ha in total · 10 days
  13. 55 ha Vilabuly fire, 10 March 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 2,122 ha in total · 14 days
  14. 3,958 ha Xaybuathong fire, 9 March 2021 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 3,936 ha in total · 12 days
  15. 2,131 ha Xaybuathong fire, 9 March 2021 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 2,120 ha in total · 21 days
  16. 6,720 ha Xaybuathong fire, 9 March 2021 where it started 7.2% of the municipality · 6,683 ha in total · 12 days
  17. 3,357 ha Xaybuathong fire, 9 March 2020 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 3,898 ha in total · 9 days
  18. 4,404 ha Xaybuathong fire, 8 March 2020 where it started 4.8% of the municipality · 4,380 ha in total · 10 days
  19. 9,030 ha Xaybuathong fire, 1 March 2020 where it started 9.7% of the municipality · 11,085 ha in total · 14 days
  20. 2,044 ha Xaybuathong fire, February 2020 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,032 ha in total · 14 days
  21. 5,147 ha Xaybuathong fire, February 2019 where it started 5.6% of the municipality · 5,118 ha in total · 16 days
  22. 2,178 ha Xaybuathong fire, 11 March 2017 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 2,200 ha in total · 5 days
  23. 2,620 ha Xaybuathong fire, 5 March 2017 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 2,664 ha in total · 3 days
  24. 130 ha Bualapha fire, 16 March 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 2,082 ha in total · 9 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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