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Wildfires in Banyo

Banyo, Cameroon, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 6,388 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.3% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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 Low 30° · 38 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 29° · 41 % · 20 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 50 % · 23 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 51 % · 15 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Low 29° · 41 % · 28 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Low 30° · 38 % · 30 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Low 29° · 37 % · 22 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Low 28° · 52 % · 23 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

6,388
hectares burned
1.3 %
of its area
8
fires
5,100
km²

How many times has Banyo burned?

Banyo has burned 8 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Bankim fire, 25 February 2026, with 291 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 6,388 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,738 hectares, 0.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 2× 26
8
fires
6
years with fire
6,388
cumulative ha
3,738
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 Cameroon →

Fires that entered Banyo

  1. 291 ha Bankim fire, 25 February 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 2,620 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 3,045 ha Bankim fire, 19 February 2026 0.6% of the municipality · 16,563 ha in total · 22 days
  3. 639 ha Bankim fire, 27 February 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 1,352 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 360 ha Bankim fire, February 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 2,131 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 1,224 ha Banyo fire, February 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,507 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 584 ha Bankim fire, January 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 3,469 ha in total · 20 days
  7. 178 ha Bankim fire, 24 February 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,381 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 68 ha Bankim fire, 15 February 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,887 ha in total · 14 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).

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