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Wildfires in Luang Prabang

Luang Prabang, Laos: 324 fires with a page have entered 12 of its 12 districts since 2016, burning 1,290,495 hectares inside the region. The largest was Park Ou in 22 March 2026, with 56,458 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
1,290,495ha
Since 2016
Of the region
64%
20,106 km²
fires
324
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
12
of 12
Largest fire
56,458ha
Park Ou · 22 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. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 52 % · 29 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 28° · 58 % · 23 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 27° · 71 % · 14 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 28° · 63 % · 24 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Very low 28° · 61 % · 18 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very low 26° · 68 % · 23 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 27° · 63 % · 22 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 26° · 58 % · 28 km/h
  9. Mon 9 Very low 25° · 59 % · 65 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. Phonxay 245,831 ha · 94 %
  2. Pak Xeng 199,474 ha · 1.2×
  3. Park Ou 166,979 ha · 1.9×
  4. Phoukhoune 119,589 ha · 72 %
  5. Chomphet 106,582 ha · 80 %
  6. Nambak 97,651 ha · 50 %
  7. Ngoi 90,750 ha · 47 %
  8. Viengkham 68,983 ha · 34 %
  9. Phonthong 67,932 ha · 32 %
  10. Xieng Ngeun 62,384 ha · 39 %
  11. Nan 54,926 ha · 38 %
  12. Luangprabang 9,414 ha · 12 %

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
202646287,614 Park Ou 56,458 ha
2025817,300 Phoukhoune 5,324 ha
20242783,599 Park Ou 14,315 ha
202355222,393 Pak Xeng 31,023 ha
20221755,649 Pak Xeng 6,815 ha
20212360,832 Park Ou 5,077 ha
202036159,320 Park Ou 35,604 ha
20193098,817 Viengkham 8,376 ha
201824130,002 Nga 34,315 ha
201734106,887 Park Ou 8,912 ha
20162468,083 Phonxay 4,589 ha

All fires in Luang Prabang · 324

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).

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