Burned area
satellite only9,594ha
Union of 4 GWIS (Copernicus) perimeters: overlapping areas count once.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- 3 Nov 2025 – 25 Nov 2025
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BF · Burkina Faso · –
Pissila fire, 3 November 2025 Boala, Pibaoré, Pissila
Out · last detection 25 Nov 2025, 13:37 UTC
The fire started on 3 November 2025 in Pissila, Burkina Faso, and satellites saw it burning for 23 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 9,594 hectares from heat detections, spread across 4 municipalities.
Number 22 in Burkina Faso in 2025, of 532.
GWIS near-real-time perimeter, from the layer that changed in August 2025: this fire is not compared with fires from earlier years, because since then the GWIS layer gives more and larger perimeters.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only23days
3 Nov 2025 to 25 Nov 2025: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 25 Nov 2025, 13:37 UTC
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Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
Start
satellite only3 Nov 2025
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 3 Nov 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 only256
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 64 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP + NOAA-20)
- Date
- 3 Nov 2025 – 25 Nov 2025
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The worst day
satellite only510MW
Total radiative power on 9 November 2025; hotspots that day: 20.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 9 Nov 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
model43.4FWI · very high
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 28.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 3 Nov 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
model38.1°C · 23% RH
High of 38.1 °C and minimum humidity of 23% on 6 November 2025; gusts of 40 km/h on 23 November 2025.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 3 Nov 2025 – 25 Nov 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≈ 11,000people
Estimated residents inside the perimeter and 57 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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logLast day with fire: 21 November 2025 → 25 November 2025.
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logStart date: 6 November 2025 → 3 November 2025.
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· reconstructed weatherWeather and FWI computed from the ERA5 reanalysis
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· reconstructed GHSLPopulation and built-up area computed
What was saved on 27 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
- 9,694 ha
- Dates
- 3 Nov 2025 – 25 Nov 2025
- Name
- Pissila
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/pissila-2025-11-4?v=2026-10-27A 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
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CSV for this fire pissila-2025-11-4.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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-03 | 12 | 160 | 37.2 | 20.1 | 15 | 10.6 | 23 | 0 | 43.4 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-04 | 1 | 6 | 37 | 20.4 | 24 | 9.6 | 24.1 | 0 | 39.6 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-05 | 0 | 0 | 37.8 | 21.3 | 19 | 8.9 | 20.2 | 0 | 39.4 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-06 | 41 | 290 | 38.1 | 23.1 | 23 | 9.2 | 23 | 0 | 40.1 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-07 | 2 | 2 | 36.9 | 23.8 | 31 | 9.3 | 24.5 | 0 | 35.6 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-08 | 0 | 0 | 35.5 | 24.8 | 31 | 12.2 | 28.8 | 0 | 37 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-09 | 20 | 510 | 37.7 | 22 | 22 | 10.3 | 19.1 | 0 | 37.1 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-10 | 1 | 2 | 37.7 | 20.1 | 14 | 10.9 | 25.2 | 0 | 43.7 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-11 | 4 | 19 | 37.1 | 19 | 13 | 11.1 | 16.2 | 0 | 44.9 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-12 | 13 | 250 | 37.9 | 21.9 | 17 | 14.4 | 29.2 | 0 | 48.9 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-13 | 57 | 421 | 37.4 | 20.3 | 16 | 12.3 | 23.8 | 0 | 47 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-14 | 18 | 137 | 37.2 | 19.1 | 10 | 12 | 28.4 | 0 | 49.1 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-15 | 17 | 50 | 35.9 | 19.5 | 14 | 15.7 | 35.6 | 0 | 53.8 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-11-16 | 8 | 101 | 35.6 | 21.6 | 12 | 16.2 | 36 | 0 | 54.9 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-11-17 | 8 | 14 | 35.6 | 20.8 | 15 | 12.8 | 30.2 | 0 | 50.9 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-11-18 | 41 | 400 | 34.8 | 19.2 | 14 | 10.9 | 28.8 | 0 | 49 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-19 | 4 | 14 | 35.4 | 18.2 | 13 | 10.5 | 27 | 0 | 48.9 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-20 | 0 | 0 | 36.5 | 18.3 | 10 | 11.5 | 26.3 | 0 | 50.4 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-11-21 | 7 | 114 | 36.8 | 17.3 | 11 | 12.6 | 28.8 | 0 | 52 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-11-22 | 0 | 0 | 37.3 | 19.9 | 10 | 15.2 | 34.6 | 0 | 55.6 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-11-23 | 0 | 0 | 36.6 | 20.9 | 11 | 19.8 | 40.3 | 0 | 62 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-11-24 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 20.6 | 12 | 13.8 | 30.2 | 0 | 54.5 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-11-25 | 2 | 14 | 36.9 | 18.9 | 12 | 11.6 | 27.4 | 0 | 52.1 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-11-26 | 0 | 0 | 36.6 | 19.6 | 14 | 11.4 | 18.4 | 0 | 51.8 | extremo | 0 |
| 2025-11-27 | 0 | 0 | 36.7 | 18.8 | 15 | 10.7 | 20.9 | 0 | 50.4 | extremo | 0 |
| 2025-11-28 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 22 | 13 | 11.2 | 25.9 | 0 | 51.3 | extremo | 0 |
| 2025-11-29 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 25.1 | 18 | 12.5 | 26.3 | 0 | 50.6 | extremo | 0 |
| 2025-11-30 | 0 | 0 | 35.7 | 25.2 | 30 | 9.1 | 19.1 | 0 | 38.4 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2025-12-01 | 0 | 0 | 35.9 | 24.7 | 28 | 8.8 | 18.7 | 0 | 38.2 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2025-12-02 | 0 | 0 | 34.6 | 23.8 | 20 | 11.6 | 23 | 0 | 41.1 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2025-12-03 | 0 | 0 | 35.3 | 21.3 | 12 | 15.2 | 32.8 | 0 | 50.9 | extremo | 0 |
| 2025-12-04 | 0 | 0 | 33.5 | 21.4 | 9 | 15 | 32.4 | 0 | 52.7 | extremo | 0 |
| 2025-12-05 | 0 | 0 | 34.7 | 21 | 9 | 12.6 | 27.7 | 0 | 50.9 | extremo | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 9,594ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 23days
- 3 Nov 2025 – 25 Nov 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 4
- communes
- Started on
- 3 Nov
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 256
- in a single hotspot: 64 MW
- Danger at start
- 43
- Very high · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 147MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
3 Nov25 Nov
25 Nov 2025
How it evolved, day by day
3 Nov
9 Nov
13 Nov
17 Nov
25 Nov
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
38°high
40km/h · peak gust
10%lowest humidity
It had gone 28 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
9% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 824 ha in 2024.
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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4,036 ha reached on 6 Nov8.7 %
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3,142 ha reached on 3 Nov6.9 %
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Pissila where it started2,518 ha reached on 3 Nov1.6 %
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53 ha reached on 9 Nov0.1 %
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 area57 ha
Residents≈ 11,000
Inside the perimeter there were about 57 hectares of built-up land and about 11,000 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Nov | 37.2 °C | 15 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 4 Nov | 37.0 °C | 24 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 5 Nov | 37.8 °C | 19 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 6 Nov | 38.1 °C | 23 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 7 Nov | 36.9 °C | 31 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 8 Nov | 35.5 °C | 31 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 9 Nov | 37.7 °C | 22 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 10 Nov | 37.7 °C | 14 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 11 Nov | 37.1 °C | 13 % | 16 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 12 Nov | 37.9 °C | 17 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
| 13 Nov | 37.4 °C | 16 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 14 Nov | 37.2 °C | 10 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
| 15 Nov | 35.9 °C | 14 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 54 |
| 16 Nov | 35.6 °C | 12 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 55 |
| 17 Nov | 35.6 °C | 15 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 18 Nov | 34.8 °C | 14 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
| 19 Nov | 35.4 °C | 13 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
| 20 Nov | 36.5 °C | 10 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 50 |
| 21 Nov | 36.8 °C | 11 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 52 |
| 22 Nov | 37.3 °C | 10 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 56 |
| 23 Nov | 36.6 °C | 11 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 62 |
| 24 Nov | 36.0 °C | 12 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 54 |
| 25 Nov | 36.9 °C | 12 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 52 |
| 26 Nov after | 36.6 °C | 14 % | 18 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 52 |
| 27 Nov after | 36.7 °C | 15 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 50 |
| 28 Nov after | 37.0 °C | 13 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 29 Nov after | 37.0 °C | 18 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 30 Nov after | 35.7 °C | 30 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 38 |
| 1 Dec after | 35.9 °C | 28 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 38 |
| 2 Dec after | 34.6 °C | 20 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 3 Dec after | 35.3 °C | 12 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 4 Dec after | 33.5 °C | 9 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 53 |
| 5 Dec after | 34.7 °C | 9 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
Before and after, from space
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Before · 27 Oct 2025
After · 2 Dec 2025
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 4 November 2025 the air beside the fire reached 56 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 37: 2.5 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak56 µg/m³
Days over the guideline19 days
PM10228 µg/m³
Optical depth0.46
WHO 15
4 Nov9 Nov14 Nov19 Nov24 Nov
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 · 256Every 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
- 15,961 haBoala October 2026 · 14 days · 7 km away
- 12,873 haPissila28 October 2025 · 16 days · 15 km away
- 10,558 haBoala31 October 2025 · 7 days · 22 km away
- 5,444 haPissila28 October 2025 · 12 days · 28 km away
- 6,482 haPissila19 March 2023 · 4 days · 35 km away
- 11,207 haBoulsa23 October 2026 · 14 days · 40 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Pissila fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 3 November 2025 to 25 November 2025 (23 days). The perimeter dates it from 6 November 2025 to 21 November 2025.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 9,594 hectares (95.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 4 municipalities: Boala (4,036 ha, 8.7 %); Pibaoré (3,142 ha, 6.9 %); Pissila (2,518 ha, 1.6 %); Boussouma (53 ha, 0.1 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 38.1 °C, humidity dropped to 10 % and gusts hit 40 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 62, 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.
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: 21 November 2025 → 25 November 2025.
- Start date: 6 November 2025 → 3 November 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; 4 polygons grouped in this page.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 6 November 2025 to 21 November 2025. 256 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 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.