Wildfires in Vientiane Capital
Vientiane Capital, Laos: 22 fires with a page have entered 5 of its 9 districts since 2016, burning 94,389 hectares inside the region. The largest was Naxaithong in April 2026, with 23,169 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
- 94,389ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 26%
- 3,583 km²
- fires
- 22
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 5
- of 9
- Largest fire
- 23,169ha
- Naxaithong · April 2026
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Thu 12 Very low 28° · 56 % · 14 km/h
- Fri 13 Low 29° · 61 % · 19 km/h
- Sat 14 Low 30° · 56 % · 17 km/h
- Sun 15 Low 31° · 56 % · 20 km/h
- Mon 16 Low 32° · 55 % · 14 km/h
- Tue 17 Low 31° · 65 % · 17 km/h
- Wed 18 Very low 30° · 68 % · 26 km/h
- Thu 19 Very low 30° · 59 % · 15 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Sangthong 40,900 ha · 58 %
- Naxaithong 39,674 ha · 44 %
- Mayparkngum 7,496 ha · 11 %
- Xaythany 4,891 ha · 5.8 %
- Sikhottabong 1,429 ha · 9.8 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (2,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 17×Sangthong40,900 ha
- 5×Naxaithong39,674 ha
- 2×Mayparkngum7,496 ha
- 2×Xaythany4,891 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 23,169 haNaxaithongApril 2026 · 18 days
- 12,667 haNaxaithongMarch 2023 · 10 days
- 9,426 haThaphabath27 March 2026 · 27 days
- 7,811 haSangthongApril 2016 · 14 days
- 7,132 haSangthongMarch 2020 · 10 days
- 5,791 haSangthongApril 2017 · 9 days
- 4,433 haSangthongApril 2026 · 15 days
- 4,082 haNaxaithongMarch 2022 · 6 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 4 | 39,542 | Naxaithong 23,169 ha |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,962 | Naxaithong 2,947 ha |
| 2023 | 5 | 18,666 | Naxaithong 12,667 ha |
| 2022 | 1 | 4,082 | Naxaithong 4,082 ha |
| 2020 | 2 | 9,267 | Sangthong 7,132 ha |
| 2019 | 1 | 2,827 | Sangthong 2,827 ha |
| 2018 | 1 | 327 | Meun 327 ha |
| 2017 | 2 | 5,840 | Sangthong 5,791 ha |
| 2016 | 3 | 7,875 | Sangthong 7,811 ha |
All fires in Vientiane Capital · 22
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 4,433 haSangthongApril 2026 · 15 days
- 23,169 haNaxaithongApril 2026 · 18 days
- 9,426 haThaphabath27 March 2026 · 27 days
- 2,513 haSangthongMarch 2026 · 16 days
- 2,947 haNaxaithongApril 2024 · 8 days
- 2,605 haSangthongApril 2024 · 7 days
- 410 haMeunApril 2024 · 9 days
- 2,376 haNaxaithongApril 2023 · 6 days
- 324 haMeun20 March 2023 · 10 days
- 12,667 haNaxaithongMarch 2023 · 10 days
- 2,961 haXaythanyMarch 2023 · 13 days
- 338 haHinherbMarch 2023 · 23 days
- 4,082 haNaxaithongMarch 2022 · 6 days
- 7,132 haSangthongMarch 2020 · 10 days
- 2,135 haHinherb27 March 2020 · 12 days
- 2,827 haSangthongMarch 2019 · 5 days
- 327 haMeunMarch 2018 · 8 days
- 5,791 haSangthongApril 2017 · 9 days
- 49 haMeun2 April 2017 · 10 days
- 2 haMeun7 April 2016 · 7 days
- 7,811 haSangthongApril 2016 · 14 days
- 62 haHinherb4 April 2016 · 15 days
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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