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Wildfires in Champasak

Province of Lao PDR

Wildfires in Champasak

Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 08:31 UTC

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Fire history, 2012–2025

Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-23

Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 11,840 km² of Champasak at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 4,810 km², ranking 8th of 17 regions of Lao PDR.

4,810 km²detected in an average year
2016busiest year, 5,580 km²
2012quietest year, 3,360 km²
Februarypeak month, 36% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 3,360 km2'122013: 4,730 km2'132014: 4,130 km2'142015: 4,910 km2'152016: 5,580 km2'162017: 4,270 km2'172018: 4,810 km2'182019: 5,230 km2'192020: 5,540 km2'202021: 5,010 km2'212022: 4,390 km2'222023: 5,220 km2'232024: 5,390 km2'242025: 4,740 km2'255,580 km2

Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.

The busiest year was 2016, with 5,580 km² detected; the quietest was 2012, with 3,360 km². The 2021–2025 average is 9.0% higher than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 15%JFebruary: 36%FMarch: 33%MApril: 11%AMay: 1.1%MJune: 0.1%JJuly: 0.0%JAugust: 0.0%ASeptember: 0.0%SOctober: 0.1%ONovember: 0.3%NDecember: 2.7%D36%

Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.

January, February and March together hold 85% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 12 February 2019, with detections in 328 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 11,840 km² with at least one detection, 75% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year1,64014%
2 years1,31011%
3 to 5 years3,28028%
6 to 10 years4,13035%
11 years or more1,48012%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 14.25, 105.75 and holds 23% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
20123,3604,106
20134,7306,134
20144,1305,359
20154,9106,888
20165,5807,985
20174,2705,455
20184,8106,435
20195,2307,788
20205,5408,178
20215,0107,347
20224,3906,420
20235,2208,201
20245,3908,127
20254,7406,268

Other regions of Lao PDR

Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.

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