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Wildfires in Matéri

Matéri, Benin, has had 42 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 80,558 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 45% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 16).

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 Moderate 36° · 28 % · 19 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 34° · 37 % · 18 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 35° · 33 % · 14 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 35° · 39 % · 27 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 34° · 42 % · 30 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 34° · 45 % · 28 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 35° · 35 % · 23 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 36° · 50 % · 30 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

80,558
hectares burned
45 %
of its area
42
fires
1,775
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Matéri

  1. 1,088 ha Matéri fire, February 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,373 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,056 ha Matéri fire, 26 December 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,049 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 1,318 ha Matéri fire, 22 December 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,735 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 981 ha Matéri fire, 8 December 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,084 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 6,293 ha Matéri fire, 7 December 2025 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 6,879 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 1,043 ha Matéri fire, 27 November 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,037 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 574 ha Tanguiéta fire, 21 November 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 6,371 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 774 ha Matéri fire, 13 November 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,488 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 1,456 ha Matéri fire, January 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,446 ha in total · 11 days
  10. 1,608 ha Matéri fire, 23 December 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,704 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 3,469 ha Matéri fire, 5 December 2024 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 3,445 ha in total · 10 days
  12. 604 ha Matéri fire, 5 December 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,166 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 2,578 ha Matéri fire, 4 December 2024 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,185 ha in total · 11 days
  14. 1,016 ha Matéri fire, November 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,009 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 1 ha Tanguiéta fire, 15 November 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 16,310 ha in total · 36 days
  16. 3,828 ha Matéri fire, 16 December 2023 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 5,553 ha in total · 12 days
  17. 6,265 ha Matéri fire, 15 December 2023 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 6,331 ha in total · 13 days
  18. 125 ha Tanguiéta fire, 26 January 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 1,112 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 1,232 ha Matéri fire, 13 December 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,225 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 2,924 ha Matéri fire, 11 December 2022 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 4,430 ha in total · 6 days
  21. 28 ha Tanguiéta fire, 22 November 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 42,755 ha in total · 36 days
  22. 10,066 ha Matéri fire, 19 February 2022 where it started 5.7% of the municipality · 10,705 ha in total · 9 days
  23. 2,172 ha Matéri fire, 5 February 2022 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,614 ha in total · 6 days
  24. 32 ha Tanguiéta fire, 12 January 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 3,584 ha in total · 8 days
  25. 3,583 ha Matéri fire, January 2022 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 4,229 ha in total · 11 days
  26. 1,097 ha Matéri fire, 13 January 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,116 ha in total · 8 days
  27. 11 ha Tanguiéta fire, 9 January 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 1,605 ha in total · 4 days
  28. 1,805 ha Matéri fire, 8 January 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,859 ha in total · 6 days
  29. 2,812 ha Matéri fire, 17 December 2020 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,864 ha in total · 7 days
  30. 2,472 ha Matéri fire, 14 December 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,472 ha in total · 4 days
  31. 575 ha Tanguiéta fire, 13 December 2020 0.3% of the municipality · 34,318 ha in total · 19 days
  32. 1,457 ha Matéri fire, November 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,448 ha in total · 6 days
  33. 7,898 ha Matéri fire, January 2020 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 8,614 ha in total · 10 days
  34. 409 ha Tanguiéta fire, 23 December 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 2,891 ha in total · 6 days
  35. 192 ha Tanguiéta fire, 23 December 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 1,277 ha in total · 7 days
  36. 1,024 ha Tanguiéta fire, 12 February 2019 0.6% of the municipality · 2,234 ha in total · 5 days
  37. 1,100 ha Matéri fire, February 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,124 ha in total · 7 days
  38. 1,716 ha Matéri fire, January 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,123 ha in total · 6 days
  39. 43 ha Tanguiéta fire, 17 January 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,130 ha in total · 2 days
  40. 1,027 ha Tanguiéta fire, 25 November 2017 0.6% of the municipality · 2,392 ha in total · 8 days
  41. 623 ha Matéri fire, 18 November 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,102 ha in total · 7 days
  42. 2,180 ha Matéri fire, 1 November 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,165 ha in total · 16 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).