Skip to content
worldfires
en
BJ · Benin · Borgou

Wildfires in Tchaourou

Tchaourou, Benin, has had 22 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 35,099 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.2% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 13).

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. Sat 24 Moderate 34° · 34 % · 16 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 33° · 38 % · 18 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Moderate 32° · 51 % · 25 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 58 % · 22 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Low 32° · 52 % · 26 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Low 34° · 42 % · 29 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Moderate 33° · 42 % · 25 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Moderate 33° · 55 % · 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

35,099
hectares burned
5.2 %
of its area
22
fires
6,813
km²

How many times has Tchaourou burned?

Tchaourou has burned 22 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2026. The most recent: Tchaourou fire, 16 February 2026, with 1,076 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 35,099 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 32,572 hectares, 4.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 7× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 8× 26
22
fires
5
years with fire
35,099
cumulative ha
32,572
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 Tchaourou

  1. 1,076 ha Tchaourou fire, 16 February 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,068 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 1,378 ha Tchaourou fire, 16 February 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,369 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 4,172 ha Djougou fire, February 2026 0.6% of the municipality · 8,786 ha in total · 14 days
  4. 2,226 ha Tchaourou fire, 15 February 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,210 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 1,765 ha Tchaourou fire, 15 February 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,753 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 107 ha Bassila fire, 15 February 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 4,176 ha in total · 15 days
  7. 1,387 ha Tchaourou fire, January 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,379 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 1,033 ha Bassila fire, 7 January 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 111,614 ha in total · 54 days
  9. 1,284 ha Tchaourou fire, 6 February 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,277 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 1,423 ha Tchaourou fire, 6 February 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,413 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 856 ha Bassila fire, 6 January 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 2,126 ha in total · 15 days
  12. 1,112 ha Tchaourou fire, February 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,105 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 1,389 ha Tchaourou fire, 24 January 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,379 ha in total · 7 days
  14. 1,599 ha Tchaourou fire, 23 January 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,588 ha in total · 10 days
  15. 3,776 ha Tchaourou fire, 20 January 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,150 ha in total · 29 days
  16. 819 ha Tchaourou fire, 22 January 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,362 ha in total · 7 days
  17. 751 ha Tchaourou fire, 20 January 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,108 ha in total · 5 days
  18. 1,539 ha Tchaourou fire, 20 January 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,530 ha in total · 14 days
  19. 1,151 ha Tchaourou fire, 17 January 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,590 ha in total · 9 days
  20. 6 ha Bassila fire, 14 January 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 2,326 ha in total · 11 days
  21. 4,504 ha Tchaourou fire, 11 January 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,472 ha in total · 28 days
  22. 1,749 ha Tchaourou fire, 8 January 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,738 ha in total · 17 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).

Tell me what burns here

New fires in this area by RSS: paste the link into your reader, no email needed.

Follow by RSS