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Wildfires in Phongsaly

Phongsaly, Laos: 67 fires with a page have entered 7 of its 7 districts since 2016, burning 189,407 hectares inside the region. The largest was Samphanh in 4 April 2023, with 8,930 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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
189,407ha
Since 2016
Of the region
12%
15,518 km²
fires
67
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
7
of 7
Largest fire
8,930ha
Samphanh · 4 April 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 Very low 30° · 50 % · 17 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 31° · 44 % · 16 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 31° · 46 % · 14 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 29° · 58 % · 28 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 28° · 49 % · 29 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 29° · 42 % · 24 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 29° · 43 % · 17 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 29° · 49 % · 18 km/h
  9. Sat 31 Very low 31° · 52 % · 19 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. May 71,875 ha · 26 %
  2. Samphanh 47,392 ha · 18 %
  3. Khua 26,944 ha · 16 %
  4. Boontay 14,488 ha · 11 %
  5. Phongsaly 13,299 ha · 4.6 %
  6. Boon Neua 7,965 ha · 6.7 %
  7. Nhot Ou 7,444 ha · 2.4 %

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
20261336,254 May 4,206 ha
2024414,158 May 3,796 ha
20231547,588 Samphanh 8,930 ha
202228,540 Khua 6,037 ha
2021921,171 Khua 3,260 ha
20201026,739 Samphanh 4,881 ha
201925,245 May 2,882 ha
201824,406 Samphanh 2,306 ha
201726,464 May 4,003 ha
2016818,841 Boontay 3,639 ha

All fires in Phongsaly · 67

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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