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Wildfires in Ouèssè

Ouèssè, Benin, has had 16 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 17,527 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.8% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 32° · 54 % · 19 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 33° · 46 % · 17 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 32° · 51 % · 24 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 32° · 57 % · 27 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 56 % · 42 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 33° · 56 % · 44 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

17,527
hectares burned
5.8 %
of its area
16
fires
2,997
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Ouèssè

  1. 1,027 ha Ouèssè fire, 23 January 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,039 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 1,441 ha Ouèssè fire, 23 January 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,431 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 426 ha Savè fire, 20 January 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 3,436 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 16 ha Savè fire, 18 January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,023 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 1,068 ha Bassila fire, 7 January 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 111,614 ha in total · 54 days
  6. 23 ha Bassila fire, 27 January 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 1,521 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 1,767 ha Ouèssè fire, February 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,755 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 243 ha Savè fire, February 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 1,723 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 272 ha Ouèssè fire, February 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,366 ha in total · 11 days
  10. 937 ha Ouèssè fire, February 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,145 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 409 ha Savè fire, January 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 2,092 ha in total · 10 days
  12. 1,331 ha Ouèssè fire, 7 February 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,322 ha in total · 13 days
  13. 1,899 ha Ouèssè fire, 5 February 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,886 ha in total · 11 days
  14. 5,575 ha Ouèssè fire, 5 February 2017 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 5,539 ha in total · 14 days
  15. 1,085 ha Ouèssè fire, 4 February 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,078 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 8 ha Savè fire, 25 January 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,247 ha in total · 5 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).