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Wildfires in Xaignabouli

Xaignabouli, Laos: 174 fires with a page have entered 11 of its 11 districts since 2016, burning 890,096 hectares inside the region. The largest was Phiang in 20 March 2026, with 111,304 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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
890,096ha
Since 2016
Of the region
57%
15,565 km²
fires
174
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
11
of 11
Largest fire
111,304ha
Phiang · 20 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. Sat 14 Very low 25° · 59 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Very low 26° · 57 % · 28 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very low 27° · 59 % · 26 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 27° · 66 % · 18 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 27° · 71 % · 21 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low 25° · 71 % · 26 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 25° · 65 % · 26 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low 24° · 65 % · 27 km/h

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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. Phiang 264,410 ha · 94 %
  2. Parklai 148,001 ha · 66 %
  3. Xayabury 127,093 ha · 56 %
  4. Xienghone 79,194 ha · 67 %
  5. Ngeun 59,102 ha · 80 %
  6. Thongmyxay 58,976 ha · 67 %
  7. Botene 53,070 ha · 48 %
  8. Hongsa 46,997 ha · 31 %
  9. Xaysathan 25,117 ha · 28 %
  10. Khop 23,520 ha · 34 %
  11. Kenethao 4,618 ha · 3.7 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (2,000 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
202637299,996 Phiang 111,304 ha
2025724,191 Phiang 8,078 ha
2024617,174 Parklai 4,832 ha
202327174,268 Phiang 35,697 ha
202224,780 Xayabury 2,412 ha
2021411,436 Ngeun 4,934 ha
202027109,005 Phiang 13,285 ha
20192196,757 Phiang 20,431 ha
20181124,712 Phiang 4,013 ha
20171036,101 Phiang 8,285 ha
20162291,676 Phiang 18,540 ha

All fires in Xaignabouli · 174

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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