Pama fire, 9 November 2025 Pama
The fire started on 9 November 2025 in Pama, Burkina Faso, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,173 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 127th largest in Goulmou since 2016 (of 529 with a page). Number 215 in Burkina Faso in 2025, of 609.
- Burnt area
- 2,173ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 2days
- 9 Nov 2025 – 10 Nov 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- communes
- Started on
- 9 Nov
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 38
- in a single hotspot: 52 MW
- Energy released
- 358MW
- 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
63% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 8 ha in 2016, 45 ha in 2017, 849 ha in 2019, 736 ha in 2021, 448 ha in 2023, 221 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 1,379 ha that had burned before.
- 736 ha Pama fire, November 2021 2,975 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 699 ha Pama fire, December 2019 1,817 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 448 ha Pama fire, November 2023 1,319 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 221 ha Pama fire, November 2024 2,414 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 150 ha Pama fire, December 2019 3,205 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 45 ha Pama fire, November 2017 7,515 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 4 ha Pama fire, November 2016 3,086 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 3 ha Pama fire, November 2016 2,735 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
What happened to each town
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Pama where it started2,188 ha reached on 10 Nov0.4 %
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 11 November 2025 the air beside the fire reached 60 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 34: 2.3 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 · 38Every 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 Pama fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 9 November 2025 and 10 November 2025: 2 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 2,173 hectares (21.7 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Pama (2,188 ha, 0.4 %).
- 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.