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Wildfires in Xienghone

Xienghone, Laos, has had 24 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 79,194 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 67% 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. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 62 % · 16 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 63 % · 18 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 68 % · 18 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 28° · 80 % · 16 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 28° · 65 % · 18 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 28° · 62 % · 18 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 29° · 59 % · 21 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 27° · 70 % · 22 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

79,194
hectares burned
67 %
of its area
24
fires
1,183
km²

How many times has Xienghone burned?

Xienghone has burned 24 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Xienghone fire, 7 April 2026, with 2,517 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 79,194 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 39,913 hectares, 34 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 5× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 4× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 5× 26
24
fires
8
years with fire
79,194
cumulative ha
39,913
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 Xienghone

  1. 2,517 ha Xienghone fire, 7 April 2026 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 2,503 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 635 ha Ngeun fire, 4 April 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 2,023 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 12,750 ha Xienghone fire, 3 April 2026 where it started 11% of the municipality · 12,675 ha in total · 19 days
  4. 0 ha Pakbeng fire, 1 April 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 4,447 ha in total · 12 days
  5. 892 ha Khop fire, March 2026 0.8% of the municipality · 7,899 ha in total · 31 days
  6. 28 ha Khop fire, 25 March 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 3,369 ha in total · 13 days
  7. 209 ha Ngeun fire, April 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 2,064 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 2,462 ha Xienghone fire, April 2023 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 2,449 ha in total · 21 days
  9. 363 ha Khop fire, 22 March 2023 0.3% of the municipality · 2,304 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 17,347 ha Khop fire, 19 March 2023 15% of the municipality · 28,618 ha in total · 31 days
  11. 2,368 ha Xienghone fire, April 2022 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,356 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 7 ha Ngeun fire, March 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 4,908 ha in total · 11 days
  13. 5 ha Pakbeng fire, April 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,042 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 2,394 ha Xienghone fire, 31 March 2020 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,428 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 6,962 ha Xienghone fire, 17 March 2020 where it started 5.9% of the municipality · 6,923 ha in total · 23 days
  16. 59 ha Ngeun fire, 17 March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 3,773 ha in total · 20 days
  17. 3,240 ha Xienghone fire, 8 March 2020 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 3,222 ha in total · 14 days
  18. 2,232 ha Xienghone fire, April 2019 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,221 ha in total · 9 days
  19. 233 ha Pakbeng fire, 26 March 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 2,657 ha in total · 11 days
  20. 12,723 ha Paktha fire, March 2019 11% of the municipality · 12,680 ha in total · 33 days
  21. 71 ha Ngeun fire, 10 March 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 5,085 ha in total · 25 days
  22. 2,226 ha Xienghone fire, 13 April 2016 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,213 ha in total · 6 days
  23. 5,805 ha Paktha fire, 9 April 2016 4.9% of the municipality · 5,770 ha in total · 20 days
  24. 3,667 ha Xienghone fire, 2 April 2016 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 3,645 ha in total · 22 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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