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Wildfires in Gogounou

Gogounou, Benin, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 20,325 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.0% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 19).

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. Wed 28 Moderate 34° · 36 % · 22 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Moderate 34° · 35 % · 22 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Moderate 34° · 44 % · 25 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Moderate 33° · 43 % · 26 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Moderate 34° · 39 % · 21 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Moderate 35° · 39 % · 19 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Moderate 35° · 37 % · 26 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Moderate 34° · 47 % · 23 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

20,325
hectares burned
4.0 %
of its area
10
fires
5,036
km²

How many times has Gogounou burned?

Gogounou has burned 10 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Gogounou fire, February 2026, with 9,565 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 20,325 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 16,299 hectares, 3.2 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
10
fires
7
years with fire
20,325
cumulative ha
16,299
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 Gogounou

  1. 9,565 ha Gogounou fire, February 2026 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 11,057 ha in total · 24 days
  2. 510 ha Sinendé fire, January 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 1,197 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 1,374 ha Gogounou fire, March 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,366 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 1,675 ha Gogounou fire, February 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,666 ha in total · 15 days
  5. 1,100 ha Gogounou fire, 12 February 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,094 ha in total · 17 days
  6. 1,322 ha Gogounou fire, 8 February 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,314 ha in total · 14 days
  7. 1,302 ha Gogounou fire, 6 February 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,385 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 1,338 ha Gogounou fire, February 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,330 ha in total · 11 days
  9. 1,013 ha Gogounou fire, January 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,007 ha in total · 16 days
  10. 1,127 ha Gogounou fire, January 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,121 ha in total · 12 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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