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Wildfires in Xiangkhouang

Xiangkhouang, Laos: 131 fires with a page have entered 7 of its 7 districts since 2016, burning 495,362 hectares inside the region. The largest was Phookood in 16 March 2026, with 27,357 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
495,362ha
Since 2016
Of the region
39%
12,796 km²
fires
131
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
7
of 7
Largest fire
27,357ha
Phookood · 16 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. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 58 % · 26 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 66 % · 20 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 27° · 60 % · 22 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 54 % · 19 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 27° · 67 % · 19 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 27° · 55 % · 22 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 28° · 52 % · 18 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 27° · 59 % · 26 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. Phookood 183,233 ha · 73 %
  2. Kham 140,408 ha · 67 %
  3. Nonghed 57,801 ha · 25 %
  4. Khoune 38,874 ha · 22 %
  5. Mork 28,666 ha · 14 %
  6. Pek 28,209 ha · 22 %
  7. Phaxay 18,171 ha · 18 %

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
202636165,981 Phookood 27,357 ha
2025935,740 Phookood 11,712 ha
20241132,892 Pek 6,519 ha
20232281,526 Pek 23,369 ha
2022615,782 Phookood 3,359 ha
202137,904 Nonghed 4,153 ha
20201444,963 Pek 8,934 ha
2019715,664 Mork 3,008 ha
2018620,496 Kham 5,278 ha
2017720,877 Phookood 8,813 ha
20161053,539 Khoune 12,814 ha

All fires in Xiangkhouang · 131

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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