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Fallou fire, October 2026 Fallou, Dilly

Dying down · last detection 25 Oct 2026, 14:44 UTC

The fire started on 22 October 2026 in Fallou, Mali, and satellites saw it burning for 5 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 6,210 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 5th largest in Koulikouro since 2016 (of 125 with a page). Number 12 in Mali in 2026, of 138.

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Is it still active?

No detections since 25 Oct 2026, 14:44 UTC. That usually means no flame is visible from space any more, although hotspots may remain. Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.

Burnt area
6,210ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
5days
22 Oct 2026 – 26 Oct 2026
Municipalities hit
2
communes
Started on
22 Oct
2026
Heat detections
76
in a single hotspot: 44 MW
Average daily power
200MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 22 Oct26 Oct
25 Oct 2026

How it evolved, day by day

22 Oct 2026 · 6 MW · 1 23 Oct 2026 · 39 MW · 8 24 Oct 2026 · 49 MW · 5 25 Oct 2026 · 705 MW · 62
22 Oct 23 Oct 24 Oct 25 Oct

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

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 3.9% of the area of London (62 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

  1. Fallou where it started
    5,027 ha reached on 22 Oct
    1.7 %
  2. Dilly
    1,223 ha reached on 24 Oct
    0.2 %

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.

Before · 15 Oct 2026
After · 25 Oct 2026

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 · 76Every 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 Fallou fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 22 October 2026 to 26 October 2026 (5 days). The perimeter dates it from 22 October 2026 to 25 October 2026.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 6,210 hectares (62.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Fallou (5,027 ha, 1.7 %); Dilly (1,223 ha, 0.2 %).
Is the Fallou fire still active?
No fire detections since 25 Oct 2026, 14:44 UTC. A lack of detections is not an official extinction.
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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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 22 October 2026 to 25 October 2026. 76 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • We have not matched this page with any official record.

How we build fire pages: methodology ›

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.