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Wildfires in Dien Bien

Dien Bien, Vietnam, has had 27 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 30,038 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 18% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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. Wed 4 Very low 29° · 60 % · 23 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Very low 30° · 59 % · 18 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low 28° · 65 % · 16 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 27° · 60 % · 19 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 28° · 56 % · 23 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Low 24° · 58 % · 41 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Low 23° · 50 % · 39 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Low 24° · 42 % · 30 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 Dien Bien: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

30,038
hectares burned
18 %
of its area
27
fires
1,644
km²

How many times has Dien Bien burned?

Dien Bien has burned 27 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Dien Bien fire, 12 April 2026, with 1,178 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 30,038 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 18,937 hectares, 12 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 6× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8. 3× 23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 5× 26
27
fires
8
years with fire
30,038
cumulative ha
18,937
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 Dien Bien

  1. 1,178 ha Dien Bien fire, 12 April 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,174 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 2,655 ha Dien Bien fire, 9 April 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,646 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 1,124 ha Dien Bien fire, 23 March 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,121 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 1,110 ha Dien Bien fire, 23 March 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,806 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 1,442 ha Dien Bien fire, 18 March 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,514 ha in total · 21 days
  6. 297 ha Sop Cop fire, March 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 1,256 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 1,868 ha Dien Bien fire, March 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,903 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 955 ha Dien Bien fire, 18 April 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,380 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 520 ha Dien Bien fire, 4 April 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,054 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 1,382 ha Dien Bien fire, March 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,377 ha in total · 13 days
  11. 1,917 ha Dien Bien fire, 30 March 2021 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,911 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 1,126 ha Dien Bien fire, 6 March 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,122 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 73 ha Muong Cha fire, 30 March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,631 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 1,634 ha Dien Bien fire, March 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,629 ha in total · 10 days
  15. 1,438 ha Sop Cop fire, 8 March 2020 0.9% of the municipality · 2,302 ha in total · 10 days
  16. 446 ha Sop Cop fire, 8 March 2020 0.3% of the municipality · 2,179 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 1,411 ha Dien Bien fire, 12 February 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,405 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 783 ha Dien Bien fire, 12 February 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,088 ha in total · 4 days
  19. 1,051 ha Dien Bien fire, April 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,048 ha in total · 9 days
  20. 1,295 ha Dien Bien fire, 10 March 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,291 ha in total · 9 days
  21. 984 ha Dien Bien fire, 10 March 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,137 ha in total · 6 days
  22. 1,318 ha Dien Bien fire, April 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,314 ha in total · 6 days
  23. 1,635 ha Sop Cop fire, March 2017 1.0% of the municipality · 2,594 ha in total · 3 days
  24. 1,078 ha Dien Bien fire, 16 March 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,075 ha in total · 7 days
  25. 655 ha Dien Bien fire, 16 March 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,098 ha in total · 8 days
  26. 381 ha Muong Ang fire, 16 March 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 3,595 ha in total · 8 days
  27. 282 ha Dien Bien Dong fire, March 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 1,219 ha in total · 7 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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