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Wildfires in Ako

Ako, Cameroon, has had 21 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 29,431 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 27% 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. Fri 23 Very low 33° · 48 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 32° · 55 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 33° · 52 % · 22 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 33° · 53 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 64 % · 23 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 63 % · 20 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 33° · 48 % · 35 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 32° · 57 % · 25 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

29,431
hectares burned
27 %
of its area
21
fires
1,108
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Ako

  1. 1,090 ha Ako fire, 10 March 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,083 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,023 ha Misaje fire, March 2026 0.9% of the municipality · 1,246 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 1,643 ha Ako fire, 5 March 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,633 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 1,150 ha Ako fire, 2 March 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,247 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 2,553 ha Ako fire, 28 February 2026 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 2,536 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 1,155 ha Ako fire, 28 February 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,148 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 3,135 ha Ako fire, 27 February 2026 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 3,114 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 1,127 ha Ako fire, 25 February 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,120 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 1,243 ha Ako fire, 24 February 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,235 ha in total · 19 days
  10. 2,411 ha Ako fire, 24 February 2026 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 4,325 ha in total · 12 days
  11. 196 ha Nwa fire, 22 February 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 4,379 ha in total · 14 days
  12. 2,557 ha Ako fire, 20 February 2026 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 2,556 ha in total · 16 days
  13. 2,257 ha Ako fire, 20 February 2026 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 4,061 ha in total · 15 days
  14. 760 ha Ako fire, February 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,359 ha in total · 7 days
  15. 41 ha Nwa fire, February 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,052 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 2,112 ha Ako fire, 28 February 2021 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,098 ha in total · 9 days
  17. 1,335 ha Ako fire, 16 February 2021 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,326 ha in total · 5 days
  18. 1,132 ha Ako fire, 11 February 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,125 ha in total · 2 days
  19. 61 ha Ako fire, February 2020 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,457 ha in total · 12 days
  20. 1,218 ha Ako fire, 25 February 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,210 ha in total · 4 days
  21. 1,231 ha Ako fire, 25 February 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,224 ha in total · 6 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/OpenStreetMap, Wambacher (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).