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Wildfires in Adja-Ouèrè

Adja-Ouèrè, Benin, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2020: 858 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.9% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 65 % · 25 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 73 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 31° · 64 % · 18 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 66 % · 22 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 32° · 62 % · 25 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 31° · 73 % · 32 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 66 % · 32 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 32° · 66 % · 24 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

858
hectares burned
1.9 %
of its area
1
fires
455
km²

How many times has Adja-Ouèrè burned?

Adja-Ouèrè has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2020. The most recent: Adja-Ouèrè fire, February 2020, with 858 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
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  5. 1× 20
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  10.   25
  11.   26
1
fires
1
years with fire
858
cumulative ha
14 Feb 2020
most recent

Fires larger than 1,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Benin →

Fires that entered Adja-Ouèrè

  1. 858 ha Adja-Ouèrè fire, February 2020 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 1,169 ha in total · 20 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Map Maker Ltd., Stanford earthworks (Public Domain). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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