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Wildfires in Zogbodomey

Zogbodomey, Benin, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 3,151 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.8% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Tue 3 Very low 32° · 76 % · 26 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 58 % · 21 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very low 33° · 54 % · 25 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 32° · 58 % · 22 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Low 33° · 55 % · 21 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Low 33° · 53 % · 28 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 33° · 63 % · 37 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 33° · 57 % · 24 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

3,151
hectares burned
3.8 %
of its area
2
fires
838
km²

How many times has Zogbodomey burned?

Zogbodomey has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2020. The most recent: Zogbodomey fire, February 2020, with 2,126 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
3,151
cumulative ha
5 Feb 2020
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 Zogbodomey

  1. 2,126 ha Zogbodomey fire, February 2020 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 2,112 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 1,024 ha Toffo fire, February 2016 1.2% of the municipality · 2,594 ha in total · 8 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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