Kong fire, 10 January 2026 Kong, Bilimono
The fire started on 10 January 2026 in Kong, Côte d’Ivoire, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,198 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 205th largest in Savanes since 2016 (of 276 with a page). Number 97 in Côte d’Ivoire in 2026, of 136.
- Burnt area
- 1,198ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 1day
- 10 Jan 2026 – 10 Jan 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- sub-prefectures
- Started on
- 10 Jan
- 2026
- Heat detections
- 53
- in a single hotspot: 86 MW
- Energy released
- 1.1GW
- 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
97% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1 ha in 2017, 182 ha in 2018, 435 ha in 2019, 540 ha in 2021, 614 ha in 2022, 1,061 ha in 2024, 195 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 1,165 ha that had burned before.
- 575 ha Bilimono fire, January 2024 1,456 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 540 ha Bilimono fire, December 2021 4,015 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 486 ha Kong fire, November 2024 1,772 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 377 ha Kong fire, December 2019 1,821 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 360 ha Kong fire, December 2022 2,299 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 254 ha Bilimono fire, December 2022 1,221 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 182 ha Kong fire, December 2018 1,152 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 170 ha Kong fire, December 2025 1,424 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
What happened to each town
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Kong where it started831 ha reached on 10 Jan0.3 %
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375 ha reached on 10 Jan0.1 %
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.
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 13 January 2026 the air beside the fire reached 105 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 92: 6.1 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 · 53Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Kong fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 10 January 2026 and 10 January 2026: 1 day 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 1,198 hectares (12.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Kong (831 ha, 0.3 %); Bilimono (375 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.