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Wildfires in Béka

Béka, Cameroon, has had 62 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 87,448 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 52% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 13).

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. Thu 22 Moderate 34° · 30 % · 24 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Moderate 32° · 37 % · 19 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Moderate 32° · 37 % · 17 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Moderate 33° · 31 % · 16 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Moderate 33° · 38 % · 18 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Moderate 32° · 42 % · 22 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Moderate 33° · 32 % · 24 km/h
  8. Thu 29 High 33° · 25 % · 37 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

87,448
hectares burned
52 %
of its area
62
fires
1,666
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Béka

  1. 1,748 ha Béka fire, 27 February 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,737 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,124 ha Béka fire, 20 February 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,117 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 2,533 ha Béka fire, 19 February 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,950 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 1,628 ha Béka fire, 13 February 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,010 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 1,674 ha Béka fire, 11 February 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,664 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 1,481 ha Béka fire, 2 February 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,472 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 945 ha Béka fire, 26 January 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,176 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 3,739 ha Béka fire, 14 January 2026 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 3,721 ha in total · 20 days
  9. 1,586 ha Béka fire, 13 January 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,600 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 1,697 ha Béka fire, 3 January 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,024 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 20 ha Poli fire, 27 December 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 1,657 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 81 ha Poli fire, 13 December 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 1,501 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 1,338 ha Béka fire, March 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,330 ha in total · 6 days
  14. 2,985 ha Béka fire, 25 February 2025 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,476 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 1,039 ha Béka fire, 20 February 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,033 ha in total · 3 days
  16. 2,827 ha Béka fire, January 2025 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,809 ha in total · 7 days
  17. 990 ha Béka fire, March 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,080 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 1,846 ha Béka fire, February 2024 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,246 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 1,583 ha Béka fire, 23 January 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,573 ha in total · 6 days
  20. 1,376 ha Béka fire, 22 January 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,397 ha in total · 3 days
  21. 1,441 ha Béka fire, 17 February 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,433 ha in total · 5 days
  22. 1,529 ha Béka fire, 8 February 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,046 ha in total · 3 days
  23. 1,092 ha Béka fire, 2 February 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,086 ha in total · 4 days
  24. 4,354 ha Béka fire, January 2023 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 4,378 ha in total · 7 days
  25. 4 ha Poli fire, 26 November 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,689 ha in total · 2 days
  26. 1,958 ha Béka fire, 14 February 2022 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,158 ha in total · 4 days
  27. 1,155 ha Béka fire, 10 February 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,148 ha in total · 5 days
  28. 1,223 ha Béka fire, January 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,333 ha in total · 5 days
  29. 71 ha Poli fire, 19 January 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,295 ha in total · 5 days
  30. 1,440 ha Béka fire, 27 March 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,539 ha in total · 5 days
  31. 2,111 ha Béka fire, 1 March 2021 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,621 ha in total · 3 days
  32. 1,428 ha Béka fire, 22 February 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,419 ha in total · 3 days
  33. 1,191 ha Béka fire, 1 February 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,183 ha in total · 6 days
  34. 1,131 ha Béka fire, 27 January 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,123 ha in total · 6 days
  35. 1,148 ha Béka fire, 19 January 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,140 ha in total · 6 days
  36. 1,192 ha Béka fire, 15 January 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,186 ha in total · 5 days
  37. 2,566 ha Béka fire, 5 January 2021 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,550 ha in total · 9 days
  38. 1 ha Poli fire, 15 November 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,846 ha in total · 5 days
  39. 2,466 ha Béka fire, February 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,774 ha in total · 4 days
  40. 80 ha Poli fire, 2 February 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,377 ha in total · 4 days
  41. 1,126 ha Béka fire, 31 January 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,119 ha in total · 5 days
  42. 1,124 ha Béka fire, 26 January 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,157 ha in total · 5 days
  43. 1 ha Poli fire, 26 December 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,271 ha in total · 3 days
  44. 1,475 ha Béka fire, 30 January 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,855 ha in total · 3 days
  45. 1,068 ha Béka fire, 26 January 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,062 ha in total · 3 days
  46. 1,097 ha Béka fire, March 2018 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,091 ha in total · 3 days
  47. 1,345 ha Béka fire, 17 January 2018 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,337 ha in total · 6 days
  48. 1,449 ha Béka fire, 16 January 2018 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,441 ha in total · 7 days
  49. 1,281 ha Béka fire, 22 February 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,273 ha in total · 4 days
  50. 2,849 ha Béka fire, 18 February 2017 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 3,825 ha in total · 6 days
  51. 2,980 ha Béka fire, 9 February 2017 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,962 ha in total · 8 days
  52. 1,386 ha Béka fire, 7 February 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,711 ha in total · 8 days
  53. 1,079 ha Béka fire, January 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,485 ha in total · 6 days
  54. 1 ha Poli fire, 19 December 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,048 ha in total · 4 days
  55. 1,739 ha Béka fire, 22 February 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,728 ha in total · 3 days
  56. 1,244 ha Béka fire, 14 February 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,239 ha in total · 6 days
  57. 1,210 ha Béka fire, 2 February 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,202 ha in total · 3 days
  58. 628 ha Béka fire, 30 January 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,578 ha in total · 6 days
  59. 1,041 ha Béka fire, 20 January 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,053 ha in total · 5 days
  60. 1,137 ha Béka fire, 9 January 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,129 ha in total · 5 days
  61. 1,208 ha Béka fire, 8 January 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,200 ha in total · 3 days
  62. 1,158 ha Béka fire, 8 January 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,151 ha in total · 2 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).