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Wildfires in Houaphan

Houaphan, Laos: 141 fires with a page have entered 10 of its 10 districts since 2016, burning 529,787 hectares inside the region. The largest was Huameuang in 26 March 2026, with 25,330 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
529,787ha
Since 2016
Of the region
30%
17,436 km²
fires
141
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
10
of 10
Largest fire
25,330ha
Huameuang · 26 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. Thu 22 Low 26° · 52 % · 18 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Very low 26° · 61 % · 24 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Very low 27° · 53 % · 22 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Very low 27° · 59 % · 18 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Very low 24° · 79 % · 26 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Very low 22° · 71 % · 39 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Very low 22° · 67 % · 35 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Very low 23° · 69 % · 28 km/h
  9. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 52 % · 20 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. Huameuang 165,197 ha · 68 %
  2. Xamneua 100,205 ha · 32 %
  3. Xon 85,922 ha · 42 %
  4. Add 56,047 ha · 54 %
  5. Xiengkhor 40,136 ha · 50 %
  6. Hiem 38,925 ha · 28 %
  7. Sopbao 24,264 ha · 23 %
  8. Kuan 11,771 ha · 8.4 %
  9. Viengxay 5,833 ha · 3.8 %
  10. Xamtay 1,487 ha · 0.6 %

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
202629120,259 Huameuang 25,330 ha
2024924,995 Add 4,120 ha
202321111,232 Huameuang 23,812 ha
202224,416 Xiengkhor 2,228 ha
202126,003 Xiengkhor 3,804 ha
20201644,010 Xamneua 9,255 ha
20191546,289 Add 6,491 ha
2018530,058 Huameuang 10,922 ha
20171238,848 Xiengkhor 5,624 ha
201630103,676 Xamneua 7,605 ha

All fires in Houaphan · 141

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).