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Ouô fire, 7 January 2026 Ouô, Mangodara

Out · last detection 2 Feb 2026, 13:45 UTC

The fire started on 7 January 2026 in Ouô, Burkina Faso, and satellites saw it burning for 27 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 29,152 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 2th largest in Tannounyan since 2016 (of 140 with a page). The largest in Burkina Faso in 2026, of 183.

Burnt area
29,152ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
27days
7 Jan 2026 – 2 Feb 2026
Municipalities hit
2
communes
Started on
7 Jan
2026
Heat detections
754
in a single hotspot: 136 MW
Danger at start
30
High · FWI index
Energy released
6.1GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

2 Feb 2026
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 7 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.

The weather it burned in

37°high
42km/h · peak gust
9%lowest humidity

It had gone 22 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

28% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 92 ha in 2022, 16 ha in 2023, 1,478 ha in 2024, 6,747 ha in 2025.

What happened to each town

  1. Ouô where it started
    27,490 ha reached on 7 Jan
    11 %
  2. Mangodara
    1,816 ha reached on 8 Jan
    0.7 %

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)
7 Jan 34.7 °C 29 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
8 Jan 31.6 °C 22 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
9 Jan 35.5 °C 17 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
10 Jan 34.6 °C 16 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
11 Jan 34.9 °C 17 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
12 Jan 34.1 °C 18 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
13 Jan 34.6 °C 18 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
14 Jan 34.6 °C 22 % 15 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
15 Jan 34.9 °C 22 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
16 Jan 35.0 °C 17 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
17 Jan 33.9 °C 17 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
18 Jan 35.3 °C 15 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
19 Jan 34.6 °C 19 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
20 Jan 33.3 °C 18 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
21 Jan 32.3 °C 23 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
22 Jan 32.3 °C 17 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
23 Jan 32.5 °C 14 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
24 Jan 34.5 °C 14 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
25 Jan 33.9 °C 9 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
26 Jan 34.1 °C 12 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
27 Jan 34.9 °C 11 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
28 Jan 35.4 °C 12 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
29 Jan 35.1 °C 10 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
30 Jan 36.6 °C 11 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
31 Jan 36.5 °C 14 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
1 Feb 36.0 °C 22 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
2 Feb 36.6 °C 23 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
3 Feb after 30.9 °C 41 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
4 Feb after 35.7 °C 23 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
5 Feb after 37.4 °C 14 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
6 Feb after 36.9 °C 15 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
7 Feb after 36.5 °C 18 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
8 Feb after 36.8 °C 15 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
9 Feb after 36.8 °C 14 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
10 Feb after 35.1 °C 18 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
11 Feb after 35.6 °C 26 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
12 Feb after 37.9 °C 16 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
13 Feb after 36.5 °C 29 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
14 Feb after 37.3 °C 26 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
15 Feb after 35.5 °C 32 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
16 Feb after 35.5 °C 12 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50
17 Feb after 34.1 °C 11 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
18 Feb after 35.4 °C 12 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
19 Feb after 35.9 °C 8 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 31 Dec 2025
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 13 January 2026 the air beside the fire reached 83 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 59: 3.9 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak83 µg/m³
Days over the guideline31 days
PM10286 µg/m³
Optical depth0.83
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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 · 754Every 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

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Ouô fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 7 January 2026 and 2 February 2026: 27 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 29,152 hectares (291.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Ouô (27,490 ha, 11 %); Mangodara (1,816 ha, 0.7 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 37.4 °C, humidity dropped to 9 % and gusts hit 42 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 54, class Extreme.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Burkina Faso (OCHA COD-AB). 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 OCHA COD-AB (Institut Geographique Burkina (IGB)) (Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-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.