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Wildfires in Diang

Diang, Cameroon, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 1,436 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.7% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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 31° · 50 % · 17 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 31° · 52 % · 19 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 56 % · 25 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 66 % · 21 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 52 % · 26 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 51 % · 23 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 64 % · 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

1,436
hectares burned
1.7 %
of its area
2
fires
831
km²

How many times has Diang burned?

Diang has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2020. The most recent: Bélabo fire, January 2020, with 324 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,436 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,218 hectares, 1.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
1,436
cumulative ha
1,218
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 Diang

  1. 324 ha Bélabo fire, January 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 1,056 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 1,111 ha Diang fire, January 2016 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,370 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).

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