How long did the Tringa fire last?

GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 21 October 2025 and 27 October 2025: 7 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 3,500 hectares (35.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Tringa (3,521 ha, 5.1 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 38.0 °C, humidity dropped to 30 % and gusts hit 32 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 20, class Moderate.

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.

ML · Mali · 2025-10-21 → 2025-10-27

Tringa fire, 21 October 2025 Tringa

Out · last detection 27 Oct 2025, 14:22 UTC

The fire started on 21 October 2025 in Tringa, Mali, and satellites saw it burning for 7 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,500 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 74th largest in Kayes since 2016 (of 337 with a page). Number 99 in Mali in 2025, of 282.

Burnt area: 3,500ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 7days; 21 Oct 2025 – 27 Oct 2025
Municipalities hit: 1; communes
Started on: 21 Oct; 2025
Heat detections: 109; in a single hotspot: 120 MW
Danger at start: 16; Moderate · FWI index
Energy released: 1.5GW; sum of detected power

Play back 27 Oct 2025

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 21 Oct27 Oct

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

38°high

32km/h · peak gust

30%lowest humidity

It had gone 3 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

51% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 929 ha in 2016, 502 ha in 2020, 547 ha in 2022, 111 ha in 2023. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 1,795 ha that had burned before.

929 ha Tringa fire, October 2016 2,556 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire

What happened to each town

Tringa where it started

3,521 ha reached on 21 Oct

5.1 %

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)
21 Oct	35.6 °C	39 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 16
22 Oct	37.4 °C	34 %	27 km/h	0.1 mm	Moderate 18
23 Oct	37.9 °C	38 %	32 km/h	1.9 mm	Moderate 15
24 Oct	37.3 °C	40 %	30 km/h	0.7 mm	Moderate 15
25 Oct	37.0 °C	37 %	31 km/h	4.8 mm	Low 6
26 Oct	37.2 °C	33 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 16
27 Oct	38.0 °C	30 %	21 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 20
28 Oct after	38.0 °C	30 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 21
29 Oct after	37.6 °C	26 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	High 23
30 Oct after	37.0 °C	39 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	High 22
31 Oct after	37.6 °C	32 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	High 23
1 Nov after	37.5 °C	32 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	High 23
2 Nov after	38.8 °C	24 %	21 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
3 Nov after	39.7 °C	12 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	High 37
4 Nov after	37.1 °C	31 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
5 Nov after	36.3 °C	31 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
6 Nov after	35.9 °C	33 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 14 Oct 2025

After · 3 Nov 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 29 October 2025 the air beside the fire reached 58 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 45: 3.0 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak58 µg/m³

Days over the guideline12 days

PM1089 µg/m³

Optical depth0.48

WHO 15

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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 · 109Every 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 Tringa fire last?: GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 21 October 2025 and 27 October 2025: 7 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 3,500 hectares (35.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Tringa (3,521 ha, 5.1 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 38.0 °C, humidity dropped to 30 % and gusts hit 32 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 20, class Moderate.
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.

Satellite cross-check

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GWIS · Copernicus ↗

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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.

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