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Wildfires in Xiengkhor

Xiengkhor, Laos, has had 14 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 40,136 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 50% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).

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 33° · 42 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 32° · 44 % · 27 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Low 31° · 52 % · 37 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Low 29° · 50 % · 35 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Low 29° · 46 % · 27 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Moderate 29° · 52 % · 26 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 60 % · 32 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 58 % · 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

40,136
hectares burned
50 %
of its area
14
fires
800
km²

How many times has Xiengkhor burned?

Xiengkhor has burned 14 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Xiengkhor fire, April 2026, with 1,379 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 40,136 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 27,892 hectares, 35 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 4× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
14
fires
7
years with fire
40,136
cumulative ha
27,892
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 Xiengkhor

  1. 1,379 ha Xiengkhor fire, April 2026 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 3,434 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 2,807 ha Xiengkhor fire, May 2023 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 2,793 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 1,345 ha Xiengkhor fire, 17 April 2023 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 4,692 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 5,286 ha Xiengkhor fire, 11 April 2023 where it started 6.6% of the municipality · 5,468 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 2,228 ha Xiengkhor fire, April 2022 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 2,296 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 2,719 ha Xiengkhor fire, April 2021 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 3,784 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 1,052 ha Sopbao fire, 18 April 2019 1.3% of the municipality · 2,380 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 2,677 ha Xiengkhor fire, 18 April 2019 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 2,707 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 3,118 ha Add fire, 10 April 2019 3.9% of the municipality · 6,461 ha in total · 20 days
  10. 2,159 ha Xiengkhor fire, 9 April 2019 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 2,293 ha in total · 14 days
  11. 4,361 ha Xiengkhor fire, May 2018 where it started 5.4% of the municipality · 4,702 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 5,624 ha Xiengkhor fire, 30 April 2017 where it started 7.0% of the municipality · 5,595 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 2,819 ha Xiengkhor fire, 30 April 2017 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 2,813 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 2,563 ha Xiengkhor fire, 30 April 2017 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 2,773 ha in total · 5 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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