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Communes that have burned most often in Cameroon

Communes of Cameroon with at least one fire larger than 1,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016: 130. With two or more: 100. Top of the list is Poli, which has burned 632 times in 11 years, with 1,182,693 hectares burned inside its boundaries.

By number of fires

  1. 1PoliNorth632×11 years · 1,182,693 ha
  2. 2TcholliréNorth518×11 years · 804,199 ha
  3. 3Rey-BoubaNorth220×11 years · 378,369 ha
  4. 4TouboroNorth146×11 years · 214,986 ha
  5. 5Ngambé-TikarCentre141×11 years · 578,518 ha
  6. 6Bétaré-OyaEast113×10 years · 446,607 ha
  7. 7Logone-BirniFar North111×11 years · 184,778 ha
  8. 8WazaFar North90×11 years · 176,472 ha
  9. 9YokoCentre88×11 years · 127,695 ha
  10. 10ZinaFar North74×11 years · 142,871 ha
  11. 11TabatiAdamaoua73×11 years · 107,773 ha
  12. 12BékaNorth62×11 years · 87,448 ha
  13. 13Furu-AwaNorth-West49×10 years · 85,565 ha
  14. 14LagdoNorth43×11 years · 48,520 ha
  15. 15MadingringNorth40×10 years · 37,818 ha
  16. 16BatouriEast37×9 years · 70,546 ha
  17. 17BankimAdamaoua36×10 years · 67,113 ha
  18. 18MeigangaAdamaoua34×9 years · 52,489 ha
  19. 19MassangamWest27×10 years · 117,498 ha
  20. 20KentzouEast26×7 years · 45,826 ha

By hectares burned

  1. 1PoliNorth1,182,693 ha632× · 1.2×
  2. 2TcholliréNorth804,199 ha518× · 55 %
  3. 3Ngambé-TikarCentre578,518 ha141× · 83 %
  4. 4Bétaré-OyaEast446,607 ha113× · 38 %
  5. 5Rey-BoubaNorth378,369 ha220× · 43 %
  6. 6TouboroNorth214,986 ha146× · 21 %
  7. 7Logone-BirniFar North184,778 ha111× · 65 %
  8. 8WazaFar North176,472 ha90× · 71 %
  9. 9ZinaFar North142,871 ha74× · 1.3×
  10. 10YokoCentre127,695 ha88× · 8.1 %
  11. 11MassangamWest117,498 ha27× · 53 %
  12. 12TabatiAdamaoua107,773 ha73× · 11 %
  13. 13BékaNorth87,448 ha62× · 52 %
  14. 14Furu-AwaNorth-West85,565 ha49× · 72 %
  15. 15BatouriEast70,546 ha37× · 19 %
  16. 16BankimAdamaoua67,113 ha36× · 27 %
  17. 17DarakFar North56,959 ha25× · 30 %
  18. 18MeigangaAdamaoua52,489 ha34× · 7.7 %
  19. 19LagdoNorth48,520 ha43× · 22 %
  20. 20BélaboEast46,165 ha24× · 6.9 %

By share of the municipality (10 km² or more)

  1. 1ZinaFar North1.3×142,871 ha · 1,112 km²
  2. 2PoliNorth1.2×1,182,693 ha · 10,113 km²
  3. 3Ngambé-TikarCentre83 %578,518 ha · 6,948 km²
  4. 4Furu-AwaNorth-West72 %85,565 ha · 1,193 km²
  5. 5WazaFar North71 %176,472 ha · 2,494 km²
  6. 6Logone-BirniFar North65 %184,778 ha · 2,825 km²
  7. 7Kribi IISouth65 %6,850 ha · 105 km²
  8. 8TcholliréNorth55 %804,199 ha · 14,714 km²
  9. 9MassangamWest53 %117,498 ha · 2,224 km²
  10. 10BékaNorth52 %87,448 ha · 1,666 km²
  11. 11KentzouEast45 %45,826 ha · 1,021 km²
  12. 12Rey-BoubaNorth43 %378,369 ha · 8,876 km²
  13. 13BenakumaNorth-West40 %38,515 ha · 963 km²
  14. 14Bétaré-OyaEast38 %446,607 ha · 11,834 km²
  15. 15GachigaNorth38 %21,405 ha · 569 km²
  16. 16MozogoFar North35 %9,675 ha · 273 km²
  17. 17DarakFar North30 %56,959 ha · 1,889 km²
  18. 18BuéaSouth-West28 %15,089 ha · 538 km²
  19. 19BankimAdamaoua27 %67,113 ha · 2,458 km²
  20. 20Mayo-OuloNorth27 %38,237 ha · 1,405 km²

How it is calculated

We count fires larger than 1,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached each municipality, even partly. Hectares are those burned inside the municipality and are added fire by fire, so land that burned twice counts twice; that is why the share, given only for municipalities of 10 km² or more, can exceed 100 % (it is then shown as a multiple). It describes what happened: it does not measure risk or say anything about causes.