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Wildfires in Bantè

Bantè, Benin, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 14,267 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.3% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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. Fri 23 Low 33° · 50 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 34° · 45 % · 18 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 32° · 50 % · 20 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 32° · 59 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 32° · 64 % · 40 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 60 % · 38 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 33° · 52 % · 38 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 33° · 55 % · 32 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

14,267
hectares burned
5.3 %
of its area
10
fires
2,669
km²

How many times has Bantè burned?

Bantè has burned 10 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Bassila fire, 7 January 2026, with 13 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 14,267 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 13,718 hectares, 5.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
10
fires
6
years with fire
14,267
cumulative ha
13,718
distinct ha

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 Bantè

  1. 13 ha Bassila fire, 7 January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 111,614 ha in total · 54 days
  2. 1,230 ha Bantè fire, February 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,222 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 1,033 ha Bantè fire, January 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,026 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 1,041 ha Bantè fire, February 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,035 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 1,145 ha Bantè fire, 19 February 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,138 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 2,476 ha Bantè fire, 18 February 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,461 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 1,700 ha Bantè fire, February 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,689 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 1,122 ha Bantè fire, 22 January 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,381 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 3,343 ha Bantè fire, 22 January 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,323 ha in total · 15 days
  10. 1,163 ha Bantè fire, 18 January 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,155 ha in total · 7 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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