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Wildfires in Kong Chro

Kong Chro, Vietnam, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 10,489 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.2% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

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. Sat 7 Low 30° · 64 % · 43 km/h
  2. Sun 8 Moderate 31° · 52 % · 48 km/h
  3. Mon 9 Low 27° · 73 % · 58 km/h
  4. Tue 10 Very low 26° · 77 % · 58 km/h
  5. Wed 11 Very low 26° · 73 % · 49 km/h
  6. Thu 12 Very low 27° · 76 % · 48 km/h
  7. Fri 13 Very low 29° · 68 % · 35 km/h
  8. Sat 14 Very low 30° · 68 % · 29 km/h
  9. Sun 15 Very low 30° · 62 % · 29 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 Kong Chro: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

10,489
hectares burned
7.2 %
of its area
6
fires
1,453
km²

How many times has Kong Chro burned?

Kong Chro has burned 6 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2018 and 2020. The most recent: Kong Chro fire, March 2020, with 1,353 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 10,489 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 7,238 hectares, 5.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
6
fires
3
years with fire
10,489
cumulative ha
7,238
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 Kong Chro

  1. 1,353 ha Kong Chro fire, March 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,344 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 2,079 ha Kong Chro fire, 12 April 2018 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,066 ha in total · 19 days
  3. 1,444 ha Kong Chro fire, 1 April 2018 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,436 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 1,496 ha Kong Chro fire, 13 April 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,488 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 2,987 ha Kong Chro fire, 6 April 2016 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 2,976 ha in total · 21 days
  6. 1,130 ha Kong Chro fire, 1 April 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,123 ha in total · 8 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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