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Andéramboukane fire, January 2025 Andéramboukane, Inékar

Out · last detection 25 Jan 2025, 13:35 UTC

The fire started on 24 January 2025 in Andéramboukane, Mali, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,262 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 51th largest in Gao since 2016 (of 135 with a page). Number 113 in Mali in 2025, of 282.

The power measured by the satellite is low (21.5 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

Burnt area
3,262ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
2days
24 Jan 2025 – 25 Jan 2025
Municipalities hit
2
communes
Started on
24 Jan
2025
Heat detections
78
in a single hotspot: 22 MW
Danger at start
64
Extreme · FWI index
Energy released
289MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 24 Jan25 Jan

How it evolved, day by day

25

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

34°high
40km/h · peak gust
7%lowest humidity

It had gone more than two months without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

6% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 195 ha in 2023.

What happened to each town

  1. Andéramboukane where it started
    2,263 ha reached on 25 Jan
    0.3 %
  2. Inékar
    1,014 ha reached on 25 Jan
    0.0 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

The weather day by day

ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
24 Jan 33.8 °C 10 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 64
25 Jan 34.2 °C 7 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 63
26 Jan after 33.4 °C 6 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 59
27 Jan after 33.4 °C 7 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 64
28 Jan after 33.6 °C 7 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 62
29 Jan after 31.9 °C 9 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 62
30 Jan after 32.3 °C 9 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 66
31 Jan after 31.3 °C 11 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 57
1 Feb after 31.3 °C 10 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
2 Feb after 30.9 °C 11 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
3 Feb after 31.8 °C 9 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 66
4 Feb after 34.5 °C 7 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 62

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 17 Jan 2025
After · 1 Feb 2025

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 25 January 2025 the air beside the fire reached 77 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 44: 2.9 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak77 µg/m³
Days over the guideline7 days
PM10389 µg/m³
Optical depth1.06
22232425262728
Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

Detections table · 78Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
Date and timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Andéramboukane fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 24 January 2025 and 25 January 2025: 2 days between the first and last heat detection of the perimeter.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 3,262 hectares (32.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Andéramboukane (2,263 ha, 0.3 %); Inékar (1,014 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 34.2 °C, humidity dropped to 7 % and gusts hit 40 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 64, class Extreme.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Mali (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.

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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 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). 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.