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Wildfires in Kouandé

Kouandé, Benin, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 3,414 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.0% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 18).

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 25 Moderate 34° · 27 % · 21 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Moderate 33° · 33 % · 19 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Moderate 32° · 45 % · 24 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Moderate 33° · 42 % · 23 km/h
  5. Thu 29 High 34° · 31 % · 34 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Moderate 34° · 30 % · 36 km/h
  7. Sat 31 High 34° · 29 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Moderate 35° · 31 % · 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

3,414
hectares burned
1.0 %
of its area
3
fires
3,271
km²

How many times has Kouandé burned?

Kouandé has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Kouandé fire, December 2025, with 770 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
3,414
cumulative ha
29 Dec 2025
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 Kouandé

  1. 770 ha Kouandé fire, December 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,084 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 1,870 ha Kouandé fire, January 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,856 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 773 ha Kérou fire, 25 November 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 1,444 ha in total · 9 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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