Bilimono fire, 26 November 2024 Bilimono, Parc national de la Comoé
The fire started on 26 November 2024 in Bilimono, Côte d’Ivoire, and satellites saw it burning for 15 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,693 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 47th largest in Savanes since 2016 (of 276 with a page). Number 29 in Côte d’Ivoire in 2024, of 164.
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- Burnt area
- 2,693ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 15days
- 26 Nov 2024 – 10 Dec 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- sub-prefectures
- Started on
- 26 Nov
- 2024
- Heat detections
- 98
- in a single hotspot: 34 MW
- Danger at start
- 29
- High · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 58MW
- 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.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 31 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
96% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,843 ha in 2016, 1,915 ha in 2017, 533 ha in 2018, 142 ha in 2019, 929 ha in 2021, 1,052 ha in 2023. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 2,592 ha that had burned before.
- 1,915 ha Bilimono fire, December 2017 10,617 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,843 ha Parc national de la Comoé fire, December 2016 31,080 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 929 ha Bilimono fire, December 2021 1,372 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 887 ha Bilimono fire, December 2023 1,199 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 533 ha Bilimono fire, December 2018 3,665 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 142 ha Bilimono fire, December 2019 9,193 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 139 ha Bilimono fire, December 2023 6,231 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 25 ha Bilimono fire, December 2023 1,490 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
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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Bilimono where it started2,704 ha reached on 26 Nov0.8 %
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8 ha reached on 2 Dec0.0 %
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.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Nov | 34.2 °C | 25 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 27 Nov | 33.7 °C | 25 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 28 Nov | 33.3 °C | 23 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 29 Nov | 33.2 °C | 25 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 30 Nov | 33.1 °C | 25 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 1 Dec | 33.4 °C | 24 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 2 Dec | 34.3 °C | 23 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 3 Dec | 35.0 °C | 23 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 4 Dec | 35.1 °C | 24 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 5 Dec | 33.1 °C | 18 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 6 Dec | 34.3 °C | 19 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 7 Dec | 33.0 °C | 25 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 8 Dec | 34.0 °C | 20 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 9 Dec | 34.1 °C | 22 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 10 Dec | 34.2 °C | 26 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 11 Dec after | 35.2 °C | 25 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 12 Dec after | 35.0 °C | 29 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 13 Dec after | 34.7 °C | 21 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 14 Dec after | 36.4 °C | 15 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 48 |
| 15 Dec after | 36.2 °C | 15 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 16 Dec after | 34.5 °C | 18 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 17 Dec after | 35.0 °C | 17 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 18 Dec after | 34.5 °C | 18 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 19 Dec after | 32.4 °C | 19 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 20 Dec after | 31.6 °C | 22 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
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.
The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 2 December 2024 the air beside the fire reached 131 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 86: 5.8 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
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 · 98Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Bilimono fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 26 November 2024 to 10 December 2024 (15 days). The perimeter dates it from 2 December 2024 to 10 December 2024.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 2,693 hectares (26.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Bilimono (2,704 ha, 0.8 %); Parc national de la Comoé (8 ha, 0.0 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 35.1 °C, humidity dropped to 18 % and gusts hit 34 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 36, class High.
- Where does this data come from?
- From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Côte d’Ivoire (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.
Emergency number: 180 · Emergency number and official warnings ›
Satellite cross-check
History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
No changes since 24 October 2026.
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 2 December 2024 to 10 December 2024. 98 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
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.