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Wildfires in Vientiane

Vientiane, Laos: 86 fires with a page have entered 10 of its 11 districts since 2016, burning 384,502 hectares inside the region. The largest was Xanakharm in March 2023, with 35,103 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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
384,502ha
Since 2016
Of the region
30%
12,785 km²
fires
86
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
10
of 11
Largest fire
35,103ha
Xanakharm · 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 Very low 32° · 55 % · 15 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 31° · 65 % · 18 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 30° · 70 % · 16 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 75 % · 17 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 73 % · 22 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 62 % · 20 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 58 % · 15 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 67 % · 16 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. Mad 110,955 ha · 71 %
  2. Xanakharm 71,133 ha · 38 %
  3. Hinherb 50,977 ha · 43 %
  4. Feuang 38,078 ha · 44 %
  5. Kasy 34,619 ha · 14 %
  6. Vangvieng 33,167 ha · 23 %
  7. Meun 21,939 ha · 20 %
  8. Thoulakhom 15,455 ha · 20 %
  9. Phonhong 4,316 ha · 7.3 %
  10. Keo Oudom 3,863 ha · 7.5 %

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
202623134,795 Xanakharm 24,560 ha
202548,534 Xieng Ngeun 3,370 ha
2024824,345 Vangvieng 4,515 ha
20231272,996 Xanakharm 35,103 ha
202212,061 Mad 2,061 ha
2020834,889 Mad 10,299 ha
2019830,442 Meun 5,189 ha
2018723,000 Mad 5,799 ha
2017526,106 Mad 7,962 ha
20161027,334 Kasy 5,443 ha

All fires in Vientiane · 86

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).