Konsotami fire, 12 April 2026 Konsotami, Tarihoye, Koba
The fire started on 12 April 2026 in Konsotami, Guinea, and satellites saw it burning for 17 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 7,381 hectares from heat detections, spread across 3 municipalities.
It is the 16th largest in Kindia since 2016 (of 242 with a page). Number 15 in Guinea in 2026, of 268.
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- Burnt area
- 7,381ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 17days
- 12 Apr 2026 – 28 Apr 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 3
- sub-prefectures
- Started on
- 12 Apr
- 2026
- Heat detections
- 176
- in a single hotspot: 166 MW
- Danger at start
- 36
- High · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 595MW
- detected power per day, on average
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.
The weather it burned in
It had gone more than two months without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.0 mm on 4 May.
This area had burned before
93% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,439 ha in 2016, 2,767 ha in 2017, 1,950 ha in 2018, 1,279 ha in 2019, 1,556 ha in 2020, 1,087 ha in 2021, 188 ha in 2022, 1,005 ha in 2023, 2,920 ha in 2024, 1,992 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 6,873 ha that had burned before.
- 2,505 ha Konsotami fire, April 2024 4,475 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,844 ha Konsotami fire, April 2018 10,531 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,104 ha Konsotami fire, April 2025 3,484 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,032 ha Konsotami fire, April 2021 5,736 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,000 ha Konsotami fire, April 2017 16,941 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 762 ha Konsotami fire, April 2016 7,091 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 714 ha Tarihoye fire, April 2023 2,307 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 669 ha Tarihoye fire, April 2017 2,325 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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Konsotami where it started5,789 ha reached on 13 Apr6.6 %
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1,621 ha reached on 13 Apr3.1 %
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20 ha0.0 %
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.
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2025Inside the perimeter there were about 4.0 hectares of built-up land and about 850 residents (GHSL 2025, satellite-based estimate).
This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.
Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu
The weather day by day
ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.
Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
| Day | High | Min. humidity | Peak gust | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Apr | 36.8 °C | 25 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 13 Apr | 36.9 °C | 20 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 14 Apr | 35.6 °C | 28 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 15 Apr | 36.6 °C | 23 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 38 |
| 16 Apr | 37.7 °C | 20 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 17 Apr | 36.0 °C | 23 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 18 Apr | 37.4 °C | 23 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 19 Apr | 36.8 °C | 20 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 20 Apr | 36.7 °C | 23 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 21 Apr | 36.1 °C | 27 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 22 Apr | 37.0 °C | 24 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 23 Apr | 36.1 °C | 22 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 24 Apr | 36.8 °C | 20 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 25 Apr | 37.6 °C | 24 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 26 Apr | 34.6 °C | 34 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 27 Apr | 35.2 °C | 27 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 28 Apr | 35.5 °C | 25 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 29 Apr after | 34.9 °C | 24 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 30 Apr after | 37.0 °C | 25 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 1 May after | 37.6 °C | 24 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 2 May after | 37.0 °C | 29 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 3 May after | 34.5 °C | 42 % | 33 km/h | 0.7 mm | High 27 |
| 4 May after | 36.1 °C | 36 % | 23 km/h | 2.0 mm | Moderate 18 |
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 April 2026 the air beside the fire reached 109 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 66: 4.4 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 · 176Every 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 Konsotami fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 12 April 2026 to 28 April 2026 (17 days). The perimeter dates it from 12 April 2026 to 21 April 2026.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 7,381 hectares (73.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 3 municipalities: Konsotami (5,789 ha, 6.6 %); Tarihoye (1,621 ha, 3.1 %); Koba (20 ha, 0.0 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 37.7 °C, humidity dropped to 20 % and gusts hit 39 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 47, class Very high.
- 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.
Satellite cross-check
History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
No changes since 24 October 2026.
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This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery; 2 polygons grouped in this page.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 12 April 2026 to 21 April 2026. 176 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
- Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.
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.