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Wildfires in Bolikhamsai

Bolikhamsai, Laos: 45 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 7 districts since 2016, burning 224,148 hectares inside the region. The largest was Thaphabath in March 2026, with 56,674 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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
224,148ha
Since 2016
Of the region
14%
15,661 km²
fires
45
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
6
of 7
Largest fire
56,674ha
Thaphabath · March 2026
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° · 56 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 31° · 60 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 32° · 60 % · 23 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 31° · 64 % · 27 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 45 % · 44 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 30° · 53 % · 53 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 52 % · 34 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 56 % · 30 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. Thaphabath 73,307 ha · 48 %
  2. Bolikhanh 59,193 ha · 23 %
  3. Viengthong 56,500 ha · 14 %
  4. Khamkeuth 26,675 ha · 10 %
  5. Xaychamphone 6,044 ha · 2.8 %
  6. Pakkading 2,428 ha · 1.2 %

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
202622158,864 Thaphabath 56,674 ha
202438,568 Khamkeuth 4,342 ha
2023726,570 Thaphabath 14,691 ha
202223,630 Viengthong 3,015 ha
2020411,547 Bolikhanh 3,790 ha
201922,247 Viengthong 2,095 ha
201812,722 Bolikhanh 2,722 ha
201649,999 Xaychamphone 3,331 ha

All fires in Bolikhamsai · 45

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).