Burned area
satellite only1,287ha
Perimeter published by GWIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- 13 Feb 2025 – 27 Feb 2025
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CM · Cameroon · –
Logone-Birni fire, 13 February 2025 Logone-Birni
Out · last detection 27 Feb 2025, 11:33 UTC
The fire started on 13 February 2025 in Logone-Birni, Cameroon, and satellites saw it burning for 15 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,287 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 124th largest in Far North since 2016 (of 260 with a page). Number 95 in Cameroon in 2025, of 158.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only15days
13 Feb 2025 to 27 Feb 2025: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 27 Feb 2025, 11:33 UTC
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Start
satellite only13 Feb 2025
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 13 Feb 2025
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Hotspots
satellite only38
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 38 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP)
- Date
- 13 Feb 2025 – 27 Feb 2025
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There is no official record to compare with. Each hotspot is a pixel detected in one satellite pass, not a separate fire.
The worst day
satellite only123MW
Total radiative power on 22 February 2025; hotspots that day: 7.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 22 Feb 2025
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Fire radiative power (FRP) measures the energy the fire gives off when the satellite passes. Added up by day, it compares intensity, not area.
Danger at the start
model60.8FWI · extreme
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 60.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 13 Feb 2025, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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This is an index computed from weather model data, not a measurement of the fire nor an official warning. Danger warnings are issued by each country’s authority. Emergency number and official warnings
Weather during the fire
model40.3°C · 6% RH
High of 40.3 °C and minimum humidity of 6% on 22 February 2025; gusts of 37 km/h on 20 February 2025.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 13 Feb 2025 – 27 Feb 2025
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
Living inside
model≈ 50people
Estimated residents inside the perimeter and 0.26 ha of built-up area (100 m grid, epoch 2025).
- Source
- GHSL R2023A · JRC
- Date
- calculated on 24 October 2026
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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.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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· reconstructed weatherWeather and FWI computed from the ERA5 reanalysis
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logLast day with fire: 24 February 2025 → 27 February 2025.
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logStart date: 17 February 2025 → 13 February 2025.
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· reconstructed GHSLPopulation and built-up area computed
What was saved on 26 October 2026
Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
- Area
- 1,287 ha
- Dates
- 13 Feb 2025 – 27 Feb 2025
- Name
- Logone-Birni
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/logone-birni-2025-02?v=2026-10-26A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
Citation
A lede of about 60 words figures only, no adjectives
CSV for this fire logone-birni-2025-02.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-13 | 5 | 27 | 33 | 18 | 10 | 17.2 | 35.6 | 0 | 60.8 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-02-14 | 0 | 0 | 33.7 | 15.4 | 8 | 14.7 | 32 | 0 | 57.8 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-02-15 | 0 | 0 | 34.4 | 14.7 | 6 | 15.9 | 34.6 | 0 | 59.7 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-02-16 | 0 | 0 | 35.6 | 16.5 | 6 | 14.4 | 31.3 | 0 | 58 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-02-17 | 1 | 5 | 36.7 | 17.8 | 8 | 15.2 | 32.8 | 0 | 59.3 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-02-18 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 18.9 | 6 | 13.1 | 29.9 | 0 | 56.9 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-02-19 | 8 | 44 | 38.2 | 18.5 | 4 | 13.2 | 31.7 | 0 | 59.4 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-02-20 | 2 | 9 | 39.3 | 20.6 | 6 | 17.4 | 37.4 | 0 | 65.6 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-02-21 | 4 | 24 | 40.1 | 20.2 | 5 | 10.1 | 22 | 0 | 55.9 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-02-22 | 7 | 123 | 40.3 | 18.8 | 6 | 13 | 29.2 | 0 | 60 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-02-23 | 4 | 32 | 39.9 | 22.1 | 10 | 14.8 | 32.4 | 0 | 62.8 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-02-24 | 3 | 25 | 40.2 | 24.7 | 10 | 14.9 | 32.8 | 0 | 63.2 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-02-25 | 2 | 46 | 40.1 | 21.6 | 9 | 14.3 | 27 | 0 | 62.6 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-02-26 | 0 | 0 | 35.7 | 23.7 | 11 | 15.5 | 34.6 | 0 | 60.8 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-02-27 | 2 | 7 | 36 | 21.7 | 9 | 17.4 | 36.7 | 0 | 63.8 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-02-28 | 0 | 0 | 38.2 | 21 | 8 | 15.7 | 34.2 | 0 | 61.6 | extremo | 0 |
| 2025-03-01 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 21.4 | 9 | 16.4 | 33.5 | 0 | 62.9 | extremo | 0 |
| 2025-03-02 | 0 | 0 | 40.7 | 22.3 | 12 | 16.7 | 36.4 | 0 | 63.6 | extremo | 0 |
| 2025-03-03 | 0 | 0 | 41.2 | 23.7 | 8 | 19.1 | 37.4 | 0 | 67.4 | extremo | 0 |
| 2025-03-04 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 22.8 | 8 | 16.5 | 34.9 | 0 | 63.9 | extremo | 0 |
| 2025-03-05 | 0 | 0 | 40.1 | 23.9 | 6 | 21.4 | 40.7 | 0 | 71.5 | muy_extremo | 0 |
| 2025-03-06 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 22.5 | 6 | 17.8 | 36 | 0 | 66.3 | extremo | 0 |
| 2025-03-07 | 0 | 0 | 39.1 | 22.8 | 9 | 17.5 | 35.6 | 0 | 66.2 | extremo | 0 |
| 2025-03-08 | 0 | 0 | 40.4 | 21.9 | 7 | 18.2 | 37.8 | 0 | 67.5 | extremo | 0 |
| 2025-03-09 | 0 | 0 | 41.5 | 22.9 | 9 | 18.2 | 38.2 | 0 | 67.8 | extremo | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 1,287ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 15days
- 13 Feb 2025 – 27 Feb 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- communes
- Started on
- 13 Feb
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 38
- in a single hotspot: 38 MW
- Danger at start
- 61
- Extreme · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 34MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
13 Feb27 Feb
27 Feb 2025
How it evolved, day by day
13 Feb
19 Feb
22 Feb
25 Feb
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
40°high
37km/h · peak gust
4%lowest humidity
It had gone more than two months without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
73% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 681 ha in 2017, 39 ha in 2018, 203 ha in 2020, 845 ha in 2022, 79 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 941 ha that had burned before.
- 845 ha Logone-Birni fire, January 2022 1,212 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 666 ha Logone-Birni fire, February 2017 1,274 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 203 ha Logone-Birni fire, February 2020 1,426 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 79 ha Logone-Birni fire, March 2024 1,458 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 39 ha Logone-Birni fire, April 2018 1,102 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 15 ha Logone-Birni fire, July 2017 1,217 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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Logone-Birni where it started1,293 ha reached on 13 Feb0.5 %
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 2025Built-up area0.26 ha
Residents≈ 50
Inside the perimeter there were about 0.26 hectares of built-up land and about 50 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)
Started with Very dry air: 32 % of the area in Cameroon 60 days without rain: 50 % of the area in Cameroon
| Day | High | Min. humidity | Peak gust | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Feb | 33.0 °C | 10 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 61 |
| 14 Feb | 33.7 °C | 8 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 58 |
| 15 Feb | 34.4 °C | 6 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 60 |
| 16 Feb | 35.6 °C | 6 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 58 |
| 17 Feb | 36.7 °C | 8 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 59 |
| 18 Feb | 37.0 °C | 6 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 57 |
| 19 Feb | 38.2 °C | 4 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 59 |
| 20 Feb | 39.3 °C | 6 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 66 |
| 21 Feb | 40.1 °C | 5 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 56 |
| 22 Feb | 40.3 °C | 6 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 60 |
| 23 Feb | 39.9 °C | 10 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 63 |
| 24 Feb | 40.2 °C | 10 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 63 |
| 25 Feb | 40.1 °C | 9 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 63 |
| 26 Feb | 35.7 °C | 11 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 61 |
| 27 Feb | 36.0 °C | 9 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 64 |
| 28 Feb after | 38.2 °C | 8 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 62 |
| 1 Mar after | 40.0 °C | 9 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 63 |
| 2 Mar after | 40.7 °C | 12 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 64 |
| 3 Mar after | 41.2 °C | 8 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 67 |
| 4 Mar after | 41.0 °C | 8 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 64 |
| 5 Mar after | 40.1 °C | 6 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 72 |
| 6 Mar after | 39.0 °C | 6 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 66 |
| 7 Mar after | 39.1 °C | 9 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 66 |
| 8 Mar after | 40.4 °C | 7 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 68 |
| 9 Mar after | 41.5 °C | 9 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 68 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 60.8, a minimum humidity of 10% and more than two months without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 18.
FWI at the start
60.8
Minimum humidity
10 %
Days without rain
60+
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Logone-Birni fire, 13 February 2025
1,287 ha
15 days
FWI 60.8
Min. humidity 10 %
Kala Balge fire, January 2021
2,444 ha
5 days
FWI 61.1
Min. humidity 10 %
77 km away, in 2021
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Mayo-Lemié fire, January 2017
2,320 ha
8 days
FWI 60.0
Min. humidity 9 %
58 km away, in 2017
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Mayo-Lemié fire, February 2017
2,507 ha
12 days
FWI 58.5
Min. humidity 10 %
57 km away, in 2017
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Kala Balge fire, March 2020
4,048 ha
4 days
FWI 60.8
Min. humidity 8 %
70 km away, in 2020
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Kala Balge fire, March 2021
2,124 ha
4 days
FWI 61.1
Min. humidity 8 %
59 km away, in 2021
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
What happened to them
- 6 days
- median duration
- 2,158 ha
- median area
- 100 %
- went past 1,000 ha
- —
- rain at the end (median; 0 of 18 had it)
It stayed below its twins: 1,287 ha against a median of 2,158 ha. It lasted 15 days, against 6 days.
In none of them did 1 mm fall in the ten days after the end: they all went out without rain.
This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it
How it ended
—first rain
—no rain in ten days
37km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 27 Feb, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain. None of its 18 twins had rain when they ended.
Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
How a twin is chosen
- Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
- Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
- Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
- Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
- They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.
Before and after, from space
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Before · 6 Feb 2025
After · 6 Mar 2025
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 26 February 2025 the air beside the fire reached 174 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 111: 7.4 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak174 µg/m³
Days over the guideline13 days
PM10644 µg/m³
Optical depth0.91
WHO 15
15 Feb18 Feb21 Feb24 Feb27 Feb
Good
Fair
Moderate
Poor
Very poor
Extremely poor
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 · 38Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
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Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Other fires nearby
- 4,565 haLogone-Birni1 February 2026 · 8 days · 5 km away
- 7,599 haLogone-Birni8 February 2026 · 31 days · 10 km away
- 73,403 haZina30 December 2025 · 80 days · 18 km away
- 13,934 haLogone-Birni 13 October 2026 · 30 days · 18 km away
- 5,163 haWaza28 February 2026 · 29 days · 31 km away
- 25,743 haWaza 9 October 2026 · 35 days · 34 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Logone-Birni fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 13 February 2025 to 27 February 2025 (15 days). The perimeter dates it from 17 February 2025 to 24 February 2025.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 1,287 hectares (12.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Logone-Birni (1,293 ha, 0.5 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 40.3 °C, humidity dropped to 4 % and gusts hit 37 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 66, class Extreme.
- Where does this data come from?
- From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Cameroon (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.
- How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
- Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2016 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 18. Their median duration was 6 days and their median area 2,158 ha; 100 % went past 1,000 ha. In none of them did 1 mm fall in the ten days after the end: they all went out without rain.
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 · 2 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
- Last day with fire: 24 February 2025 → 27 February 2025.
- Start date: 17 February 2025 → 13 February 2025.
RSS Changes to this page With cross-checks and a citable version
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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 17 February 2025 to 24 February 2025. 38 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 (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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.