Albadariah fire, January 2017 Albadariah, Sangardo
The fire started on 30 January 2017 in Albadariah, Guinea, and satellites saw it burning for 11 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,084 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 194th largest in Faranah since 2016 (of 208 with a page). Number 156 in Guinea in 2017, of 171.
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- Burnt area
- 2,084ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 11days
- 30 Jan 2017 – 9 Feb 2017
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- sub-prefectures
- Started on
- 30 Jan
- 2017
- Heat detections
- 74
- in a single hotspot: 108 MW
- Average daily power
- 98MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
This area had burned before
69% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,432 ha in 2016.
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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Albadariah where it started1,143 ha reached on 30 Jan1.6 %
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954 ha reached on 30 Jan0.8 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.
Detections table · 74Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Other fires nearby
- 22,404 haDouako12 January 2018 · 20 days · 14 km away
- 70,029 haManfran19 January 2017 · 29 days · 19 km away
- 72,176 haAlbadariah7 January 2026 · 50 days · 26 km away
- 19,542 haManfran24 January 2020 · 23 days · 27 km away
- 25,026 haFirawaJanuary 2016 · 22 days · 35 km away
- 26,206 haManfran17 January 2021 · 18 days · 37 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Albadariah fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 30 January 2017 to 9 February 2017 (11 days). The perimeter dates it from 3 February 2017 to 7 February 2017.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 2,084 hectares (20.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Albadariah (1,143 ha, 1.6 %); Sangardo (954 ha, 0.8 %).
- Where does this data come from?
- From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Guinea (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.
Where to verify it
A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.
Satellite cross-check
History of this page · 2 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
- Last day with fire: 7 February 2017 → 9 February 2017.
- Start date: 3 February 2017 → 30 January 2017.
Does something look wrong on this page?
This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 3 February 2017 to 7 February 2017. 74 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
Where this data comes from
The perimeter comes from the Copernicus Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS), which rebuilds it from MODIS and VIIRS heat detections and publishes it under CC BY 4.0. It is not measured on imagery as in Europe, so it is an estimate. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM3 (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ from each country’s official figure.