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Wildfires in Benakuma

Benakuma, Cameroon, has had 24 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 38,515 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 40% 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. Sat 24 Very low 26° · 64 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 27° · 57 % · 22 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 27° · 67 % · 22 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 24° · 74 % · 20 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 26° · 64 % · 23 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 51 % · 36 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 53 % · 27 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 27° · 54 % · 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

38,515
hectares burned
40 %
of its area
24
fires
963
km²

How many times has Benakuma burned?

Benakuma has burned 24 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Benakuma fire, 28 February 2026, with 1,344 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 38,515 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 26,520 hectares, 28 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 3× 17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7.   22
  8. 4× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 5× 26
24
fires
8
years with fire
38,515
cumulative ha
26,520
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 Benakuma

  1. 1,344 ha Benakuma fire, 28 February 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,335 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 1,785 ha Benakuma fire, 26 February 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,773 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 1,165 ha Benakuma fire, 26 February 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,157 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 1,821 ha Benakuma fire, 25 February 2026 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 1,809 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 5,631 ha Benakuma fire, 24 February 2026 where it started 5.8% of the municipality · 5,598 ha in total · 15 days
  6. 1,290 ha Benakuma fire, 21 February 2025 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,281 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 1,157 ha Benakuma fire, 18 February 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,149 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 1,046 ha Benakuma fire, February 2024 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,039 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 1,203 ha Benakuma fire, January 2024 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,195 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 410 ha Akwaya fire, January 2024 0.4% of the municipality · 1,030 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 1,254 ha Benakuma fire, 28 February 2023 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,246 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 640 ha Benakuma fire, 28 February 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,061 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 1,254 ha Benakuma fire, 28 February 2023 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,246 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 341 ha Benakuma fire, January 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,344 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 4,099 ha Benakuma fire, March 2021 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 4,170 ha in total · 9 days
  16. 1,141 ha Benakuma fire, 27 February 2021 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,133 ha in total · 7 days
  17. 1,346 ha Benakuma fire, 25 February 2021 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,337 ha in total · 6 days
  18. 1,495 ha Benakuma fire, February 2020 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,486 ha in total · 6 days
  19. 308 ha Zhoa fire, 18 February 2020 0.3% of the municipality · 1,112 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 1,202 ha Benakuma fire, 21 February 2019 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,194 ha in total · 3 days
  21. 2,325 ha Benakuma fire, 19 February 2019 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 2,310 ha in total · 5 days
  22. 17 ha Akwaya fire, 1 March 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,404 ha in total · 5 days
  23. 3,903 ha Benakuma fire, 26 February 2017 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 3,878 ha in total · 8 days
  24. 2,339 ha Benakuma fire, 26 February 2017 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 2,323 ha in total · 7 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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