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Wildfires in Attapeu

Attapeu, Laos: 44 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 4 districts since 2016, burning 133,238 hectares inside the region. The largest was Sanamxay in February 2023, with 18,140 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 5).

Only fires of 2,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

hectares burned
133,238ha
Since 2016
Of the region
14%
9,581 km²
fires
44
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
4
of 4
Largest fire
18,140ha
Sanamxay · February 2023
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very low 32° · 49 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 32° · 54 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 32° · 57 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 32° · 49 % · 19 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 32° · 53 % · 26 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 33° · 50 % · 28 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 34° · 51 % · 24 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 33° · 53 % · 28 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Sanamxay 64,748 ha · 29 %
  2. Sanxay 34,047 ha · 12 %
  3. Phouvong 22,026 ha · 6.5 %
  4. Xaysetha 12,418 ha · 9.5 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
20261127,101 Sanxay 6,482 ha
202549,944 Sanxay 3,018 ha
2024623,780 Phouvong 7,788 ha
2023835,208 Sanamxay 18,140 ha
2022719,585 Sanamxay 6,537 ha
202146,688 Xaysetha 2,463 ha
202038,556 Sanamxay 4,839 ha
201612,377 Sanxay 2,377 ha

All fires in Attapeu · 44

Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/OpenStreetMap, Wambacher (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).