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Timiri fire, January 2026 Timiri, Ségué

Out · last detection 17 Jan 2026, 02:37 UTC

The fire started on 14 January 2026 in Timiri, Mali, and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,588 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 36th largest in Mopti since 2016 (of 160 with a page). Number 27 in Mali in 2026, of 116.

Burnt area
3,588ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
4days
14 Jan 2026 – 17 Jan 2026
Municipalities hit
2
communes
Started on
14 Jan
2026
Heat detections
65
in a single hotspot: 62 MW
Danger at start
42
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
504MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

17 Jan 2026
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 14 Jan17 Jan

How it evolved, day by day

14151617

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

34°high
35km/h · peak gust
13%lowest humidity

It had gone 29 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

10% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 371 ha in 2025.

What happened to each town

  1. Timiri where it started
    3,576 ha reached on 14 Jan
    5.3 %
  2. Ségué
    32 ha
    0.0 %

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)
14 Jan 34.3 °C 13 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
15 Jan 34.3 °C 14 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
16 Jan 32.8 °C 14 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
17 Jan 32.5 °C 13 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
18 Jan after 30.6 °C 15 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
19 Jan after 28.2 °C 18 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
20 Jan after 26.4 °C 24 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
21 Jan after 26.3 °C 18 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
22 Jan after 27.3 °C 14 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
23 Jan after 28.2 °C 10 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
24 Jan after 30.6 °C 8 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
25 Jan after 30.1 °C 14 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
26 Jan after 29.9 °C 9 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
27 Jan after 32.2 °C 8 % 35 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 · 7 Jan 2026
After · 24 Jan 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 12 January 2026 the air beside the fire reached 49 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 38: 2.5 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak49 µg/m³
Days over the guideline8 days
PM10146 µg/m³
Optical depth0.41
121314151617181920
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 · 65Every 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 Timiri fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 14 January 2026 and 17 January 2026: 4 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 3,588 hectares (35.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Timiri (3,576 ha, 5.3 %); Ségué (32 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 34.3 °C, humidity dropped to 13 % and gusts hit 35 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 45, class Very high.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Mali (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 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). 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.