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Wildfires in Fonfuka

Fonfuka, Cameroon, has had 14 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 16,796 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 24% 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. Fri 23 Very low 29° · 49 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 28° · 62 % · 20 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 29° · 49 % · 17 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 27° · 70 % · 26 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 24° · 77 % · 21 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 60 % · 23 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 49 % · 30 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 46 % · 25 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

16,796
hectares burned
24 %
of its area
14
fires
711
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Fonfuka

  1. 467 ha Zhoa fire, December 2025 0.7% of the municipality · 2,181 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 634 ha Fonfuka fire, November 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,163 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 5 ha Furu-Awa fire, 22 November 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 4,731 ha in total · 23 days
  4. 4,317 ha Furu-Awa fire, 18 November 2025 6.1% of the municipality · 15,994 ha in total · 34 days
  5. 1,188 ha Fonfuka fire, December 2023 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,180 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 1,017 ha Furu-Awa fire, 3 December 2023 1.4% of the municipality · 1,166 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 719 ha Fonfuka fire, 14 November 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,001 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 1,526 ha Fonfuka fire, 5 November 2022 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,614 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 1,212 ha Fonfuka fire, November 2020 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,205 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 1,056 ha Fonfuka fire, December 2019 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,083 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 2,058 ha Fonfuka fire, 25 November 2017 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 2,229 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 1,009 ha Fonfuka fire, 9 November 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,004 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 1,005 ha Fonfuka fire, November 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,304 ha in total · 7 days
  14. 583 ha Furu-Awa fire, 7 November 2016 0.8% of the municipality · 1,379 ha in total · 9 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).