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Wildfires in Xekong

Xekong, Laos: 24 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 4 districts since 2016, burning 91,601 hectares inside the region. The largest was Dakcheung in 22 March 2026, with 16,234 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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
91,601ha
Since 2016
Of the region
11%
8,315 km²
fires
24
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
4
of 4
Largest fire
16,234ha
Dakcheung · 22 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 24 Very low 28° · 56 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 28° · 59 % · 30 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 28° · 48 % · 30 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 53 % · 33 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 61 % · 36 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 59 % · 39 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 61 % · 31 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 57 % · 34 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. Dakcheung 45,965 ha · 18 %
  2. Kaleum 27,562 ha · 8.2 %
  3. Lamarm 15,860 ha · 9.3 %
  4. Thateng 2,213 ha · 3.3 %

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
20261260,030 Dakcheung 16,234 ha
2025514,211 Dakcheung 4,802 ha
202412,461 Lamarm 2,461 ha
202212,539 Kaleum 2,539 ha
202112,565 Kaleum 2,565 ha
202012,018 Thateng 2,018 ha
201815,695 Kaleum 5,695 ha
201622,081 Kaleum 2,076 ha

All fires in Xekong · 24

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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