Bilimono fire, November 2025 Bilimono
The fire started on 24 November 2025 in Bilimono, Côte d’Ivoire, and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 4,331 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 20th largest in Savanes since 2016 (of 276 with a page). Number 26 in Côte d’Ivoire in 2025, of 144.
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- Burnt area
- 4,331ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 4days
- 24 Nov 2025 – 27 Nov 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- sub-prefectures
- Started on
- 24 Nov
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 39
- in a single hotspot: 69 MW
- Danger at start
- 24
- High · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 218MW
- 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 9 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
100% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 2,111 ha in 2016, 3,343 ha in 2017, 3,511 ha in 2018, 873 ha in 2019, 1,175 ha in 2020, 1,170 ha in 2021, 385 ha in 2022, 995 ha in 2023, 651 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 4,356 ha that had burned before.
- 3,511 ha Parc national de la Comoé fire, December 2018 90,945 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 2,301 ha Bilimono fire, December 2017 4,254 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,175 ha Bilimono fire, November 2020 1,856 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,056 ha Bilimono fire, December 2016 2,160 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 975 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 2023 1,536 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 665 ha Bilimono fire, December 2017 3,533 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 640 ha Bilimono fire, December 2021 1,703 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 started4,360 ha reached on 24 Nov1.3 %
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 Nov | 34.5 °C | 34 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 25 Nov | 35.4 °C | 28 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 26 Nov | 35.9 °C | 29 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 27 Nov | 35.7 °C | 31 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 28 Nov after | 35.1 °C | 37 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 29 Nov after | 31.1 °C | 54 % | 20 km/h | 0.1 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 30 Nov after | 31.0 °C | 55 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 1 Dec after | 33.2 °C | 47 % | 24 km/h | 0.4 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 2 Dec after | 34.6 °C | 41 % | 26 km/h | 0.2 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 3 Dec after | 34.9 °C | 32 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 4 Dec after | 34.2 °C | 25 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 5 Dec after | 35.9 °C | 21 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 6 Dec after | 35.6 °C | 25 % | 17 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 7 Dec after | 35.7 °C | 20 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
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 26 November 2025 the air beside the fire reached 36 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 26: 1.7 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 · 39Every 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?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 24 November 2025 and 27 November 2025: 4 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 4,331 hectares (43.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Bilimono (4,360 ha, 1.3 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 35.9 °C, humidity dropped to 28 % and gusts hit 23 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 26, 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
Satellite cross-check
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 from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 39 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.