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Wildfires in Toucountouna

Toucountouna, Benin, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 3,396 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.1% 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. Sat 24 Moderate 34° · 30 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 33° · 26 % · 25 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Moderate 33° · 35 % · 19 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Moderate 32° · 47 % · 28 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Moderate 33° · 40 % · 24 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Moderate 35° · 31 % · 36 km/h
  7. Fri 30 High 36° · 24 % · 38 km/h
  8. Sat 31 High 36° · 29 % · 31 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

3,396
hectares burned
3.1 %
of its area
6
fires
1,084
km²

How many times has Toucountouna burned?

Toucountouna has burned 6 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2017, 2020, 2022 and 2025. The most recent: Tanguiéta fire, 28 December 2025, with 847 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 3,396 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,988 hectares, 1.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
6
fires
5
years with fire
3,396
cumulative ha
1,988
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 Toucountouna

  1. 847 ha Tanguiéta fire, 28 December 2025 0.8% of the municipality · 5,185 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 9 ha Tanguiéta fire, 27 December 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 2,968 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 427 ha Boukombe fire, January 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 1,188 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 346 ha Tanguiéta fire, 29 December 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 2,334 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 1,049 ha Toucountouna fire, November 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,336 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 718 ha Tanguiéta fire, 20 December 2016 0.7% of the municipality · 5,207 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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