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Wildfires in Sa Thay

Sa Thay, Vietnam, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 20,855 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.6% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 52 % · 40 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 55 % · 32 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 55 % · 24 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 54 % · 33 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 57 % · 25 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 56 % · 23 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 31° · 53 % · 32 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 83 % · 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

20,855
hectares burned
8.6 %
of its area
12
fires
2,425
km²

How many times has Sa Thay burned?

Sa Thay has burned 12 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2018, 2020 and 2023. The most recent: Sa Thay fire, March 2023, with 1,212 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 20,855 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 16,428 hectares, 6.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 5× 16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4.   19
  5. 4× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
12
fires
4
years with fire
20,855
cumulative ha
16,428
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 Sa Thay

  1. 1,212 ha Sa Thay fire, March 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,205 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 2,237 ha Sa Thay fire, April 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,226 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 1,901 ha Sa Thay fire, March 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,012 ha in total · 19 days
  4. 1,313 ha Sa Thay fire, 20 February 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,305 ha in total · 12 days
  5. 3,314 ha Sa Thay fire, 17 February 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,296 ha in total · 16 days
  6. 1,271 ha Sa Thay fire, 6 April 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,265 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 1,171 ha Sa Thay fire, 1 April 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,165 ha in total · 13 days
  8. 1,026 ha Sa Thay fire, 22 April 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,021 ha in total · 9 days
  9. 1,064 ha Sa Thay fire, 15 April 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,059 ha in total · 15 days
  10. 3,920 ha Sa Thay fire, 6 April 2016 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,900 ha in total · 29 days
  11. 1,074 ha Sa Thay fire, March 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,071 ha in total · 9 days
  12. 1,352 ha Sa Thay fire, February 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,345 ha in total · 15 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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