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Wildfires in Buon Don

Buon Don, Vietnam, has had 17 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 28,339 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 20% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 5).

Only fires of 1,000 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. Thu 5 Very low 32° · 55 % · 22 km/h
  2. Fri 6 Low 32° · 54 % · 24 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Low 32° · 51 % · 28 km/h
  4. Sun 8 Low 32° · 59 % · 41 km/h
  5. Mon 9 Low 31° · 59 % · 47 km/h
  6. Tue 10 Low 30° · 59 % · 55 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Low 30° · 64 % · 50 km/h
  8. Thu 12 Low 30° · 61 % · 49 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Buon Don: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

28,339
hectares burned
20 %
of its area
17
fires
1,416
km²

How many times has Buon Don burned?

Buon Don has burned 17 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Buon Don fire, 20 February 2026, with 1,226 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 28,339 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 21,782 hectares, 15 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 5× 26
17
fires
8
years with fire
28,339
cumulative ha
21,782
distinct ha

Fires larger than 1,000 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 Vietnam

Fires that entered Buon Don

  1. 1,226 ha Buon Don fire, 20 February 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,218 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 1,340 ha Buon Don fire, 14 February 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,331 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 1 ha Cu Jut fire, February 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,457 ha in total · 19 days
  4. 10,051 ha Buon Don fire, 1 February 2026 where it started 7.1% of the municipality · 9,307 ha in total · 26 days
  5. 1,164 ha Buon Don fire, January 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,157 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 1,114 ha Buon Don fire, 2 February 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,107 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 1,512 ha Buon Don fire, 1 February 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,503 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 128 ha Ea Sup fire, 26 January 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 1,023 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 1,551 ha Buon Don fire, January 2024 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,542 ha in total · 13 days
  10. 1,192 ha Buon Don fire, January 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,185 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 1,040 ha Buon Don fire, February 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,033 ha in total · 7 days
  12. 1,333 ha Buon Don fire, January 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,324 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 2,230 ha Buon Don fire, March 2017 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,216 ha in total · 6 days
  14. 1,038 ha Buon Don fire, February 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,031 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 1,074 ha Buon Don fire, 20 January 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,068 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 1,102 ha Buon Don fire, 20 January 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,095 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 1,241 ha Buon Don fire, 20 January 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,234 ha in total · 6 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/OCHA ROAP, Government of Viet Nam (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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