Skip to content
worldfires
CM · Cameroon · South-West

Wildfires in Buéa

Buéa, Cameroon, has had 13 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 15,089 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 28% 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. Thu 22 Very low 21° · 69 % · 35 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Very low 21° · 74 % · 37 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Very low 21° · 87 % · 35 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Very low 20° · 94 % · 34 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Very low 20° · 83 % · 36 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Very low 20° · 95 % · 35 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Very low 20° · 83 % · 37 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Very low 20° · 88 % · 36 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

15,089
hectares burned
28 %
of its area
13
fires
538
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Buéa

  1. 1,114 ha Buéa fire, 28 January 2026 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 1,107 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 949 ha Buéa fire, 23 January 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,494 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 1,482 ha Buéa fire, February 2025 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 1,472 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 1,013 ha Buéa fire, February 2024 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 1,007 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 879 ha Buéa fire, January 2024 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,129 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 1,203 ha Buéa fire, March 2023 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,195 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 513 ha Idenau fire, January 2023 1.0% of the municipality · 1,047 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 1,138 ha Buéa fire, January 2023 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 1,131 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 1,664 ha Buéa fire, February 2022 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 1,653 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 423 ha Idenau fire, January 2020 0.8% of the municipality · 1,109 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 2,186 ha Buéa fire, January 2020 where it started 4.1% of the municipality · 2,242 ha in total · 10 days
  12. 1,122 ha Buéa fire, January 2019 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 1,500 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 1,402 ha Buéa fire, January 2017 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 2,539 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).