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Wildfires in Son La

Son La, Vietnam, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 10,101 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 31% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).

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 Low 27° · 54 % · 38 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Low 26° · 56 % · 35 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Low 28° · 57 % · 27 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 64 % · 29 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 62 % · 15 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 60 % · 23 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 25° · 85 % · 33 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 28° · 56 % · 28 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

10,101
hectares burned
31 %
of its area
7
fires
323
km²

How many times has Son La burned?

Son La has burned 7 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Son La fire, March 2026, with 2,795 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 10,101 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,975 hectares, 12 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 1× 26
7
fires
6
years with fire
10,101
cumulative ha
3,975
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 Son La

  1. 2,795 ha Son La fire, March 2026 where it started 8.7% of the municipality · 3,829 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 1,296 ha Son La fire, 2 March 2025 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 1,768 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 1,393 ha Son La fire, 2 March 2025 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 1,559 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 1,084 ha Son La fire, February 2020 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 1,364 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 1,096 ha Son La fire, March 2019 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 1,356 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 1,483 ha Son La fire, March 2017 where it started 4.6% of the municipality · 2,615 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 953 ha Son La fire, March 2016 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 1,528 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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