Guintéguéla fire, January 2025 Guintéguéla, Gouiné
The fire started on 18 January 2025 in Guintéguéla, Côte d’Ivoire, and satellites saw it burning for 7 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,655 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 32th largest in Woroba since 2016 (of 128 with a page). Number 76 in Côte d’Ivoire in 2025, of 144.
- Burnt area
- 1,655ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 7days
- 18 Jan 2025 – 24 Jan 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- sub-prefectures
- Started on
- 18 Jan
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 42
- in a single hotspot: 53 MW
- Energy released
- 486MW
- 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
100% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 34 ha in 2016, 1,243 ha in 2017, 961 ha in 2018, 922 ha in 2019, 823 ha in 2020, 299 ha in 2021, 1,257 ha in 2022, 50 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 1,666 ha that had burned before.
- 1,008 ha Guintéguéla fire, December 2019 9,951 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,006 ha Sifié fire, December 2022 10,668 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 951 ha Gouiné fire, January 2017 6,269 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 790 ha Gouiné fire, January 2018 1,702 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 642 ha Guintéguéla fire, January 2019 2,770 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 293 ha Gouiné fire, December 2017 25,038 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 271 ha Guintéguéla fire, January 2021 1,622 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 251 ha Guintéguéla fire, January 2022 1,185 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
What happened to each town
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Guintéguéla where it started886 ha reached on 19 Jan0.6 %
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779 ha reached on 19 Jan0.6 %
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.
The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 21 January 2025 the air beside the fire reached 56 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 39: 2.6 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 · 42Every 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
- 24,388 haGouiné15 January 2021 · 19 days · 9 km away
- 10,668 haSifiéDecember 2022 · 23 days · 9 km away
- 25,038 haGouinéDecember 2017 · 26 days · 10 km away
- 14,988 haGouiné29 January 2020 · 13 days · 11 km away
- 15,503 haGouiné1 January 2019 · 22 days · 13 km away
- 21,060 haGouiné6 January 2024 · 32 days · 15 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Guintéguéla fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 18 January 2025 to 24 January 2025 (7 days). The perimeter dates it from 18 January 2025 to 23 January 2025.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 1,655 hectares (16.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Guintéguéla (886 ha, 0.6 %); Gouiné (779 ha, 0.6 %).
- 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
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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.