Dimandougou fire, February 2023 Dimandougou, Kouassi-Datékro
The fire started on 16 February 2023 in Dimandougou, Côte d’Ivoire, and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,242 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 528th largest in Zanzan since 2016 (of 774 with a page). Number 71 in Côte d’Ivoire in 2023, of 116.
The power measured by the satellite is low (25.4 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.
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- Burnt area
- 1,242ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 4days
- 16 Feb 2023 – 19 Feb 2023
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- sub-prefectures
- Started on
- 16 Feb
- 2023
- Heat detections
- 30
- in a single hotspot: 25 MW
- Average daily power
- 145MW
- 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
86% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 862 ha in 2016, 668 ha in 2019. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 1,073 ha that had burned before.
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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Dimandougou where it started962 ha reached on 17 Feb1.6 %
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288 ha reached on 18 Feb0.2 %
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 · 30Every 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
- 4,063 haDimandougouFebruary 2019 · 7 days · 2 km away
- 11,581 haKouassi-DatékroJanuary 2016 · 22 days · 3 km away
- 8,952 haPrikroJanuary 2016 · 18 days · 25 km away
- 1,686 haPrikroFebruary 2019 · 7 days · 26 km away
- 4,004 haPrikroJanuary 2016 · 22 days · 28 km away
- 1,984 haBassawa18 February 2017 · 4 days · 36 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Dimandougou fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 16 February 2023 to 19 February 2023 (4 days). The perimeter dates it from 17 February 2023 to 19 February 2023.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 1,242 hectares (12.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Dimandougou (962 ha, 1.6 %); Kouassi-Datékro (288 ha, 0.2 %).
- 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.
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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 17 February 2023 to 19 February 2023. 30 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.