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Kaniasso fire, January 2026 Kaniasso, Tienko, Minignan

Out · last detection 29 Jan 2026, 13:20 UTC

The fire started on 13 January 2026 in Kaniasso, Côte d’Ivoire, and satellites saw it burning for 21 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,319 hectares from heat detections, spread across 3 municipalities.

It is the 18th largest in Denguélé since 2016 (of 48 with a page). Number 80 in Côte d’Ivoire in 2026, of 136.

The power measured by the satellite is low (13.7 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

Burnt area
1,319ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
21days
13 Jan 2026 – 2 Feb 2026
Municipalities hit
3
sub-prefectures
Started on
13 Jan
2026
Heat detections
23
in a single hotspot: 14 MW
Energy released
158MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

29 Jan 2026
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 13 Jan2 Feb

How it evolved, day by day

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

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

  1. Kaniasso where it started
    716 ha reached on 25 Jan
    1.2 %
  2. Tienko
    527 ha reached on 16 Jan
    0.6 %
  3. Minignan
    84 ha reached on 22 Jan
    0.1 %

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.

Before · 6 Jan 2026
After · 9 Feb 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.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 11 January 2026 the air beside the fire reached 58 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 48: 3.2 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak58 µg/m³
Days over the guideline25 days
PM10224 µg/m³
Optical depth0.66
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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 · 23Every 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

Other fires nearby

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Kaniasso fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 13 January 2026 to 2 February 2026 (21 days). The perimeter dates it from 20 January 2026 to 27 January 2026.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 1,319 hectares (13.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 3 municipalities: Kaniasso (716 ha, 1.2 %); Tienko (527 ha, 0.6 %); Minignan (84 ha, 0.1 %).
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.