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Wildfires in Bélel

Bélel, Cameroon, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 1,175 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.6% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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 Low 27° · 50 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 30° · 36 % · 24 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 30° · 28 % · 23 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 29° · 49 % · 33 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 30° · 37 % · 27 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 30° · 28 % · 32 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 30° · 24 % · 39 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

1,175
hectares burned
0.6 %
of its area
2
fires
2,044
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Bélel

  1. 101 ha Meiganga fire, February 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 1,175 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,074 ha Bélel fire, March 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,067 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).