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Wildfires in Sop Cop

Sop Cop, Vietnam, has had 29 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 33,226 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 22% of its area. Fire danger today: very 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 29 Low 25° · 57 % · 28 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 60 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 27° · 58 % · 19 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 27° · 65 % · 30 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 24° · 87 % · 23 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 25° · 66 % · 24 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 27° · 61 % · 21 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 26° · 69 % · 20 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

33,226
hectares burned
22 %
of its area
29
fires
1,483
km²

How many times has Sop Cop burned?

Sop Cop has burned 29 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Song Ma fire, March 2026, with 835 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 33,226 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 25,902 hectares, 17 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 10× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 5× 19
  5. 5× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 3× 26
29
fires
8
years with fire
33,226
cumulative ha
25,902
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 Sop Cop

  1. 835 ha Song Ma fire, March 2026 0.6% of the municipality · 2,910 ha in total · 21 days
  2. 1,293 ha Sop Cop fire, March 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,287 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 693 ha Dien Bien fire, 23 March 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 1,806 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 965 ha Sop Cop fire, March 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,256 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 41 ha Dien Bien fire, March 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 1,903 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 1,170 ha Sop Cop fire, March 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,164 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 430 ha Dien Bien fire, 18 April 2023 0.3% of the municipality · 1,380 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 1,041 ha Sop Cop fire, March 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,035 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 1,743 ha Sop Cop fire, 8 March 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,179 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 543 ha Sop Cop fire, 8 March 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,302 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 619 ha Sop Cop fire, 13 February 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,102 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 1,056 ha Sop Cop fire, 10 February 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,051 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 1,867 ha Sop Cop fire, 10 February 2020 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,144 ha in total · 7 days
  14. 1,659 ha Sop Cop fire, 18 April 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,651 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 1,052 ha Sop Cop fire, 16 April 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,047 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 1,110 ha Sop Cop fire, 11 April 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,104 ha in total · 13 days
  17. 156 ha Dien Bien fire, 10 March 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 1,137 ha in total · 6 days
  18. 1,151 ha Sop Cop fire, March 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,146 ha in total · 10 days
  19. 969 ha Sop Cop fire, March 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,594 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 1,139 ha Sop Cop fire, April 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,134 ha in total · 10 days
  21. 1,012 ha Song Ma fire, March 2016 0.7% of the municipality · 5,326 ha in total · 8 days
  22. 1,061 ha Sop Cop fire, 12 March 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,057 ha in total · 8 days
  23. 1,440 ha Sop Cop fire, 8 March 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,432 ha in total · 15 days
  24. 1,422 ha Sop Cop fire, 7 March 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,416 ha in total · 4 days
  25. 2,789 ha Sop Cop fire, 7 March 2016 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,774 ha in total · 4 days
  26. 509 ha Sop Cop fire, 6 March 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,097 ha in total · 4 days
  27. 2,734 ha Sop Cop fire, 5 March 2016 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,051 ha in total · 13 days
  28. 1,424 ha Sop Cop fire, 12 February 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,416 ha in total · 4 days
  29. 1,305 ha Sop Cop fire, 11 February 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,345 ha in total · 5 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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