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Wildfires in Lào Cai
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 09:22 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 3,280 km² of Lào Cai at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 508 km², ranking 26th of 63 regions of Vietnam.
Year by year
Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.
The busiest year was 2012, with 1,150 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 165 km². The 2021–2025 average is 62% lower than the 2012–2016 average.
Through the year
Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.
February, March and April together hold 71% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 24 February 2012, with detections in 162 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 3,280 km² with at least one detection, 29% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,530 | 47% |
| 2 years | 790 | 24% |
| 3 to 5 years | 810 | 25% |
| 6 to 10 years | 144 | 4.4% |
| 11 years or more | 5.6 | 0.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 21.75, 103.75 and holds 23% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 1,150 | 1,417 |
| 2013 | 602 | 632 |
| 2014 | 1,040 | 1,261 |
| 2015 | 673 | 706 |
| 2016 | 595 | 648 |
| 2017 | 356 | 367 |
| 2018 | 324 | 326 |
| 2019 | 512 | 542 |
| 2020 | 318 | 306 |
| 2021 | 344 | 329 |
| 2022 | 228 | 220 |
| 2023 | 464 | 502 |
| 2024 | 340 | 327 |
| 2025 | 165 | 150 |
Other regions of Vietnam
- Gia Lai4,240 km² in an average year
- Điện Biên4,070 km² in an average year
- Đắk Lắk3,130 km² in an average year
- Sơn La3,100 km² in an average year
- Kon Tum2,290 km² in an average year
- Quảng Nam1,730 km² in an average year
- How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.
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.