Manfran fire, February 2026 Manfran
The fire started on 6 February 2026 in Manfran, Guinea, and satellites saw it burning for 5 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,736 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 51th largest in Faranah since 2016 (of 208 with a page). Number 65 in Guinea in 2026, of 269.
- Burnt area
- 3,736ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 5days
- 6 Feb 2026 – 10 Feb 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- sub-prefectures
- Started on
- 6 Feb
- 2026
- Heat detections
- 72
- in a single hotspot: 44 MW
- Danger at start
- 38
- High · FWI index
- Energy released
- 664MW
- 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.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 30 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
100% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 2,146 ha in 2016, 3,134 ha in 2017, 2,316 ha in 2018, 1,995 ha in 2019, 2,389 ha in 2020, 1,829 ha in 2021, 2,165 ha in 2022, 1,029 ha in 2023, 1,687 ha in 2024, 2,268 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 3,760 ha that had burned before.
- 3,134 ha Manfran fire, January 2017 70,029 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 2,268 ha Manfran fire, January 2025 5,698 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 2,165 ha Manfran fire, January 2022 40,177 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 2,136 ha Manfran fire, January 2018 2,507 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,529 ha Firawa fire, January 2016 25,026 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,495 ha Manfran fire, January 2024 6,091 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,159 ha Manfran fire, January 2020 2,731 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,092 ha Firawa fire, January 2020 11,561 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
What happened to each town
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Manfran where it started3,759 ha reached on 7 Feb4.3 %
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.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 Feb | 35.4 °C | 15 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 7 Feb | 36.1 °C | 11 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 8 Feb | 35.9 °C | 11 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 9 Feb | 35.5 °C | 10 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 10 Feb | 35.9 °C | 13 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 11 Feb after | 35.7 °C | 18 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 12 Feb after | 36.7 °C | 13 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 13 Feb after | 36.4 °C | 12 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 14 Feb after | 35.3 °C | 14 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 15 Feb after | 36.0 °C | 19 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 16 Feb after | 35.7 °C | 12 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 17 Feb after | 35.7 °C | 9 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 18 Feb after | 35.8 °C | 8 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 19 Feb after | 35.6 °C | 4 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 20 Feb after | 37.3 °C | 5 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
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 10 February 2026 the air beside the fire reached 111 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 78: 5.2 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 · 72Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 40,177 haManfranJanuary 2022 · 30 days · 5 km away
- 26,689 haManfran5 February 2019 · 11 days · 11 km away
- 26,206 haManfran23 January 2021 · 9 days · 12 km away
- 25,026 haFirawaJanuary 2016 · 13 days · 12 km away
- 19,542 haManfran24 January 2020 · 16 days · 18 km away
- 72,176 haAlbadariah7 January 2026 · 48 days · 31 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Manfran fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 6 February 2026 and 10 February 2026: 5 days 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 3,736 hectares (37.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Manfran (3,759 ha, 4.3 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 36.1 °C, humidity dropped to 10 % and gusts hit 33 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 41, 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.
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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.