How long did the Tikaré fire last?

GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 1 January 2025 and 3 January 2025: 3 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 1,226 hectares (12.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Tikaré (1,234 ha, 3.3 %).

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.

BF · Burkina Faso · 2025-01-01 → 2025-01-03

Tikaré fire, January 2025 Tikaré

Out · last detection 3 Jan 2025, 13:46 UTC

The fire started on 1 January 2025 in Tikaré, Burkina Faso, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,226 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 186th largest in Koulsé since 2016 (of 236 with a page). Number 449 in Burkina Faso in 2025, of 609.

The power measured by the satellite is low (12.7 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

Burnt area: 1,226ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 3days; 1 Jan 2025 – 3 Jan 2025
Municipalities hit: 1; communes
Started on: 1 Jan; 2025
Heat detections: 40; in a single hotspot: 13 MW
Energy released: 195MW; sum of detected power

Play back 3 Jan 2025

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 1 Jan3 Jan

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.

This area had burned before

12% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 147 ha in 2024.

147 ha Tikaré fire, December 2024 10,676 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire

What happened to each town

Tikaré where it started

1,234 ha reached on 1 Jan

3.3 %

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.

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 25 Dec 2024

After · 10 Jan 2025

Before After

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 3 January 2025 the air beside the fire reached 72 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 66: 4.4 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak72 µg/m³

Days over the guideline8 days

PM10386 µg/m³

Optical depth0.33

WHO 15

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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 · 40Every 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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Tikaré fire last?: GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 1 January 2025 and 3 January 2025: 3 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 1,226 hectares (12.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Tikaré (1,234 ha, 3.3 %).
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

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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.

Where it burned