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Wildfires in Bassila

Bassila, Benin, has had 57 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 219,609 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 39% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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. Sun 1 Moderate 33° · 46 % · 18 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 33° · 50 % · 21 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 32° · 56 % · 22 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Low 32° · 52 % · 20 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Low 33° · 49 % · 16 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Low 33° · 49 % · 21 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Moderate 34° · 34 % · 19 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Moderate 33° · 53 % · 21 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

219,609
hectares burned
39 %
of its area
57
fires
5,669
km²

How many times has Bassila burned?

Bassila has burned 57 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Bassila fire, 18 February 2026, with 1,972 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 8× 16
  2. 8× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 6× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 8× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 8× 25
  11. 7× 26
57
fires
11
years with fire
219,609
cumulative ha
18 Feb 2026
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 Bassila

  1. 1,972 ha Bassila fire, 18 February 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,958 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 9,469 ha Bassila fire, 15 February 2026 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 9,409 ha in total · 17 days
  3. 4,097 ha Bassila fire, 15 February 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,176 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 692 ha Bassila fire, 24 January 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,038 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 1,050 ha Bassila fire, 23 January 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,043 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 8,271 ha Bassila fire, 18 January 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 8,224 ha in total · 19 days
  7. 110,139 ha Bassila fire, 7 January 2026 where it started 19% of the municipality · 111,614 ha in total · 54 days
  8. 1,236 ha Bassila fire, December 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,227 ha in total · 9 days
  9. 1,507 ha Bassila fire, 27 January 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,521 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 1,303 ha Bassila fire, 26 January 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,296 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 1,149 ha Bassila fire, 20 January 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,143 ha in total · 11 days
  12. 1,291 ha Bassila fire, 19 January 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,283 ha in total · 13 days
  13. 1,437 ha Bassila fire, 16 January 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,429 ha in total · 16 days
  14. 1,739 ha Bassila fire, 10 January 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,729 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 1,535 ha Bassila fire, 5 January 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,527 ha in total · 11 days
  16. 1,337 ha Bassila fire, February 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,330 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 1,693 ha Bassila fire, 10 February 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,684 ha in total · 13 days
  18. 1,583 ha Bassila fire, 10 February 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,573 ha in total · 10 days
  19. 1,397 ha Bassila fire, 7 February 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,389 ha in total · 13 days
  20. 1,540 ha Bassila fire, 5 February 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,531 ha in total · 17 days
  21. 4,763 ha Bassila fire, 5 February 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,735 ha in total · 18 days
  22. 1,375 ha Bassila fire, 30 January 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,367 ha in total · 3 days
  23. 1,178 ha Bassila fire, 30 January 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,170 ha in total · 3 days
  24. 1,305 ha Bassila fire, 25 January 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,297 ha in total · 8 days
  25. 1,125 ha Bassila fire, 24 January 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,119 ha in total · 18 days
  26. 5,367 ha Bassila fire, 23 January 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 5,332 ha in total · 20 days
  27. 3,354 ha Bassila fire, 24 February 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,330 ha in total · 6 days
  28. 1,152 ha Bassila fire, 14 February 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,145 ha in total · 10 days
  29. 1,484 ha Bassila fire, 21 January 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,474 ha in total · 9 days
  30. 1,011 ha Bassila fire, 19 January 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,005 ha in total · 12 days
  31. 2,654 ha Bassila fire, February 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,635 ha in total · 3 days
  32. 2,018 ha Bassila fire, January 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,005 ha in total · 14 days
  33. 1,081 ha Bassila fire, 9 February 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,075 ha in total · 8 days
  34. 1,016 ha Bassila fire, 8 February 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,011 ha in total · 9 days
  35. 1,088 ha Bassila fire, 6 February 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,082 ha in total · 12 days
  36. 1,012 ha Bassila fire, 6 February 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,005 ha in total · 6 days
  37. 216 ha Ouèssè fire, February 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,145 ha in total · 8 days
  38. 2,335 ha Bassila fire, 4 February 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,321 ha in total · 15 days
  39. 2,170 ha Bassila fire, 18 January 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,157 ha in total · 8 days
  40. 1,186 ha Bassila fire, 18 January 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,179 ha in total · 7 days
  41. 1,284 ha Bassila fire, 6 January 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,126 ha in total · 15 days
  42. 3,891 ha Bassila fire, 14 February 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,867 ha in total · 7 days
  43. 1,263 ha Bassila fire, 7 February 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,255 ha in total · 13 days
  44. 1,556 ha Bassila fire, 7 February 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,547 ha in total · 10 days
  45. 1,366 ha Bassila fire, 5 February 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,359 ha in total · 4 days
  46. 1,074 ha Bassila fire, 25 January 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,068 ha in total · 5 days
  47. 1,207 ha Bassila fire, 25 January 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,200 ha in total · 6 days
  48. 1,972 ha Bassila fire, 20 January 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,960 ha in total · 11 days
  49. 1,202 ha Bassila fire, 20 January 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,195 ha in total · 11 days
  50. 1,806 ha Bassila fire, December 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,796 ha in total · 12 days
  51. 2,485 ha Bassila fire, 22 January 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,470 ha in total · 7 days
  52. 553 ha Tchaourou fire, 22 January 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 1,362 ha in total · 7 days
  53. 364 ha Tchaourou fire, 20 January 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 1,108 ha in total · 5 days
  54. 1,377 ha Bassila fire, 20 January 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,370 ha in total · 5 days
  55. 2,536 ha Bassila fire, 14 January 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,520 ha in total · 17 days
  56. 2,337 ha Bassila fire, 14 January 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,326 ha in total · 11 days
  57. 2,006 ha Bassila fire, 13 January 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,992 ha in total · 18 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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