Wildfires in Champasak
Champasak, Laos: 25 fires with a page have entered 5 of its 11 districts since 2016, burning 74,001 hectares inside the region. The largest was Paksxong in 12 March 2026, with 7,480 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).
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
- 74,001ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 4.9%
- 15,021 km²
- fires
- 25
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 5
- of 11
- Largest fire
- 7,480ha
- Paksxong · 12 March 2026
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Very low 32° · 56 % · 19 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 32° · 56 % · 18 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 32° · 63 % · 20 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 32° · 59 % · 21 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 32° · 57 % · 23 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 32° · 63 % · 18 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 32° · 56 % · 21 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 32° · 60 % · 28 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Paksxong 46,893 ha · 14 %
- Moonlapamok 14,195 ha · 6.1 %
- Pathoomphone 9,022 ha · 3.7 %
- Bachiangchaleunsook 2,364 ha · 2.7 %
- Sukhuma 1,527 ha · 1.3 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 16×Paksxong46,893 ha
- 5×Moonlapamok14,195 ha
- 3×Pathoomphone9,022 ha
- 3×Sukhuma1,527 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 7,480 haPaksxong12 March 2026 · 39 days
- 6,885 haPathoomphoneMarch 2026 · 39 days
- 4,218 haMoonlapamokFebruary 2021 · 48 days
- 3,824 haMoonlapamokMarch 2021 · 10 days
- 3,788 haPaksxongFebruary 2020 · 25 days
- 3,168 haPaksxongFebruary 2023 · 23 days
- 3,156 haPaksxongFebruary 2026 · 23 days of 3,775 ha in total
- 3,136 haPaksxong27 February 2019 · 21 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 10 | 34,449 | Paksxong 7,480 ha |
| 2025 | 1 | 2,339 | Thateng 2,339 ha |
| 2024 | 1 | 2,014 | Paksxong 2,014 ha |
| 2023 | 1 | 3,168 | Paksxong 3,168 ha |
| 2022 | 2 | 2,458 | Paksxong 2,453 ha |
| 2021 | 3 | 10,494 | Moonlapamok 4,218 ha |
| 2020 | 3 | 8,620 | Paksxong 3,788 ha |
| 2019 | 3 | 7,686 | Paksxong 3,136 ha |
| 2016 | 1 | 2,774 | Paksxong 2,774 ha |
All fires in Champasak · 25
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 2,493 haMoonlapamokMarch 2026 · 17 days
- 6,885 haPathoomphoneMarch 2026 · 39 days
- 2,279 haPaksxong12 March 2026 · 7 days
- 7,480 haPaksxong12 March 2026 · 39 days
- 2,111 haPaksxong12 March 2026 · 5 days
- 2,805 haPaksxong8 March 2026 · 11 days
- 2,176 haMoonlapamokFebruary 2026 · 5 days
- 2,053 haSanamxay8 February 2026 · 16 days of 2,282 ha in total
- 3,011 haSukhumaFebruary 2026 · 20 days
- 3,156 haPaksxongFebruary 2026 · 23 days of 3,775 ha in total
- 2,339 haThatengMarch 2025 · 16 days of 2,517 ha in total
- 2,014 haPaksxongFebruary 2024 · 27 days
- 3,168 haPaksxongFebruary 2023 · 23 days
- 5 haSanamxay4 April 2022 · 10 days of 3,136 ha in total
- 2,453 haPaksxongFebruary 2022 · 16 days
- 3,824 haMoonlapamokMarch 2021 · 10 days
- 2,451 haPaksxongFebruary 2021 · 19 days
- 4,218 haMoonlapamokFebruary 2021 · 48 days
- 2,468 haPaksxongMarch 2020 · 15 days
- 3,788 haPaksxongFebruary 2020 · 25 days
- 2,364 haBachiangchaleunsookFebruary 2020 · 22 days
- 2,418 haPaksxong10 March 2019 · 18 days
- 3,136 haPaksxong27 February 2019 · 21 days
- 2,132 haPathoomphoneFebruary 2019 · 24 days
- 2,774 haPaksxongMarch 2016 · 27 days
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).
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