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Wildfires in Khammouane

Khammouane, Laos: 57 fires with a page have entered 7 of its 10 districts since 2016, burning 167,231 hectares inside the region. The largest was Xaybuathong in 25 February 2020, with 9,475 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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
167,231ha
Since 2016
Of the region
9.9%
16,819 km²
fires
57
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
7
of 10
Largest fire
9,475ha
Xaybuathong · 25 February 2020
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 Low 34° · 48 % · 18 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 32° · 54 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 32° · 62 % · 16 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 31° · 62 % · 37 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 32° · 48 % · 34 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 32° · 53 % · 49 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 53 % · 25 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 65 % · 36 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. Xaybuathong 79,266 ha · 85 %
  2. Bualapha 44,349 ha · 14 %
  3. Nakay 14,146 ha · 3.2 %
  4. Nhommalath 12,787 ha · 8.3 %
  5. Mahaxay 8,944 ha · 6.3 %
  6. Xebangfay 4,641 ha · 4.9 %
  7. Khounkham 3,098 ha · 2.9 %

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
20261342,607 Nhommalath 7,094 ha
202537,830 Xaybuathong 3,399 ha
202447,364 Bualapha 2,622 ha
2023824,765 Xaybuathong 5,222 ha
2022616,139 Xaybuathong 4,874 ha
2021923,012 Xaybuathong 6,720 ha
2020727,455 Xaybuathong 9,475 ha
201927,462 Xaybuathong 5,147 ha
201737,956 Khounkham 3,098 ha
201622,642 Bualapha 2,246 ha

All fires in Khammouane · 57

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).