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Wildfires in Oudomxay

Oudomxay, Laos: 299 fires with a page have entered 7 of its 7 districts since 2016, burning 1,185,570 hectares inside the region. The largest was Xay in 19 March 2023, with 60,249 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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
1,185,570ha
Since 2016
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
1.0×
11,814 km²
fires
299
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
7
of 7
Largest fire
60,249ha
Xay · 19 March 2023
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 31° · 51 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 31° · 48 % · 20 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 31° · 50 % · 15 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 62 % · 27 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 71 % · 24 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 49 % · 25 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 51 % · 14 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 30° · 56 % · 14 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. Xay 262,587 ha · 1.2×
  2. Hoon 220,370 ha · 1.0×
  3. Namor 213,262 ha · 1.2×
  4. Nga 211,405 ha · 1.1×
  5. Beng 126,763 ha · 76 %
  6. Pakbeng 115,719 ha · 91 %
  7. La 35,463 ha · 29 %

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
202636170,693 Xay 51,204 ha
2025827,033 Namor 5,785 ha
20242682,624 Hoon 7,630 ha
202342240,468 Xay 60,249 ha
20222058,807 Namor 7,235 ha
20212576,954 Xay 7,468 ha
202038128,131 Xay 11,648 ha
20192691,267 Namor 24,069 ha
201823111,616 Xay 31,456 ha
201734127,811 Namor 28,968 ha
20162170,167 Xay 23,998 ha

All fires in Oudomxay · 299

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).