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Wildfires in Akwaya

Akwaya, Cameroon, has had 25 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 32,092 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.7% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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 29° · 48 % · 17 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 28° · 68 % · 24 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 29° · 57 % · 22 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 28° · 73 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 27° · 75 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 60 % · 25 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 64 % · 32 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 61 % · 22 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

32,092
hectares burned
8.7 %
of its area
25
fires
3,706
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Akwaya

  1. 1,495 ha Akwaya fire, 28 February 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,485 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 2,030 ha Akwaya fire, 28 February 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,016 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 4 ha Benakuma fire, 24 February 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 5,598 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 46 ha Mamfé fire, February 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,475 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 1,185 ha Akwaya fire, 23 February 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,286 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 1,880 ha Akwaya fire, March 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,060 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 1,008 ha Akwaya fire, March 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,001 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 1,648 ha Akwaya fire, 25 February 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,637 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 1,049 ha Akwaya fire, 25 February 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,056 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 627 ha Akwaya fire, January 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,030 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 2 ha Mamfé fire, February 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,434 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 1,012 ha Benakuma fire, January 2023 0.3% of the municipality · 1,344 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 1,960 ha Akwaya fire, March 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,993 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 2,169 ha Akwaya fire, March 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,929 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 98 ha Benakuma fire, March 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 4,170 ha in total · 9 days
  16. 1,052 ha Akwaya fire, 28 February 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,045 ha in total · 4 days
  17. 1,035 ha Akwaya fire, 19 February 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,028 ha in total · 6 days
  18. 2,664 ha Akwaya fire, 18 February 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,646 ha in total · 8 days
  19. 1,703 ha Akwaya fire, March 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,691 ha in total · 2 days
  20. 1,272 ha Akwaya fire, 3 March 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,263 ha in total · 4 days
  21. 1,397 ha Akwaya fire, 1 March 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,404 ha in total · 5 days
  22. 3,750 ha Akwaya fire, 28 February 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,491 ha in total · 7 days
  23. 1,560 ha Akwaya fire, 26 February 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,550 ha in total · 9 days
  24. 101 ha Mamfé fire, 26 February 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,702 ha in total · 8 days
  25. 1,345 ha Akwaya fire, February 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,337 ha in total · 4 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).