Douako fire, 8 February 2022 Douako, Tokounou
The fire started on 8 February 2022 in Douako, Guinea, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,096 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 335th largest in Kankan since 2016 (of 388 with a page). Number 90 in Guinea in 2022, of 107.
- Burnt area
- 2,096ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 3days
- 8 Feb 2022 – 10 Feb 2022
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- sub-prefectures
- Started on
- 8 Feb
- 2022
- Heat detections
- 92
- in a single hotspot: 112 MW
- Energy released
- 2.8GW
- sum of detected power
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
98% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,769 ha in 2017, 60 ha in 2018, 834 ha in 2019, 1,406 ha in 2020, 1,008 ha in 2021. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 2,058 ha that had burned before.
- 1,729 ha Douako fire, February 2017 3,709 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,406 ha Tokounou fire, January 2020 13,279 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,008 ha Douako fire, January 2021 4,070 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 834 ha Douako fire, February 2019 9,068 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 60 ha Douako fire, January 2018 4,596 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 40 ha Tokounou fire, February 2017 2,767 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
What happened to each town
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Douako where it started1,663 ha reached on 8 Feb0.6 %
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446 ha reached on 8 Feb0.4 %
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.
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 · 92Every 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
- 72,176 haAlbadariah7 January 2026 · 48 days · 13 km away
- 16,530 haAlbadariahFebruary 2019 · 9 days · 19 km away
- 70,029 haManfranJanuary 2017 · 16 days · 20 km away
- 26,206 haManfran23 January 2021 · 9 days · 27 km away
- 19,542 haManfran24 January 2020 · 16 days · 29 km away
- 40,177 haManfranJanuary 2022 · 30 days · 36 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Douako fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 8 February 2022 and 10 February 2022: 3 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 2,096 hectares (21.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Douako (1,663 ha, 0.6 %); Tokounou (446 ha, 0.4 %).
- 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.
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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 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.