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Wildfires in Furu-Awa

Furu-Awa, Cameroon, has had 49 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 85,565 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 72% 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 31° · 44 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 30° · 55 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 30° · 58 % · 22 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 63 % · 21 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 71 % · 26 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 60 % · 30 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 47 % · 36 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 55 % · 30 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

85,565
hectares burned
72 %
of its area
49
fires
1,193
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Furu-Awa

  1. 1,083 ha Furu-Awa fire, March 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,076 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 477 ha Zhoa fire, March 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 1,211 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 2,639 ha Furu-Awa fire, 26 February 2026 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,622 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 1,895 ha Furu-Awa fire, 21 February 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,882 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 1,210 ha Furu-Awa fire, 31 December 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,203 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 1,124 ha Furu-Awa fire, 11 December 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,468 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 1,556 ha Furu-Awa fire, 29 November 2025 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,546 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 307 ha Fonfuka fire, November 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 1,163 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 3,693 ha Furu-Awa fire, 22 November 2025 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 4,731 ha in total · 23 days
  10. 11,611 ha Furu-Awa fire, 18 November 2025 where it started 9.7% of the municipality · 15,994 ha in total · 34 days
  11. 3,060 ha Furu-Awa fire, February 2025 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 3,040 ha in total · 9 days
  12. 1,700 ha Furu-Awa fire, November 2024 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,689 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 1,358 ha Furu-Awa fire, 17 December 2023 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,350 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 1,155 ha Furu-Awa fire, 12 December 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,148 ha in total · 7 days
  15. 1,454 ha Furu-Awa fire, 6 December 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,445 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 157 ha Furu-Awa fire, 3 December 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,166 ha in total · 12 days
  17. 1,347 ha Furu-Awa fire, 2 December 2023 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,339 ha in total · 9 days
  18. 1,058 ha Furu-Awa fire, March 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,051 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 485 ha Zhoa fire, 28 February 2023 0.4% of the municipality · 1,698 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 1,156 ha Furu-Awa fire, 27 November 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,149 ha in total · 4 days
  21. 3,748 ha Furu-Awa fire, 24 November 2022 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 4,375 ha in total · 8 days
  22. 288 ha Fonfuka fire, 14 November 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 1,001 ha in total · 9 days
  23. 94 ha Fonfuka fire, 5 November 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 1,614 ha in total · 5 days
  24. 3,445 ha Furu-Awa fire, 4 March 2021 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 3,422 ha in total · 8 days
  25. 2,745 ha Furu-Awa fire, 1 March 2021 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 2,727 ha in total · 4 days
  26. 1,191 ha Furu-Awa fire, 3 December 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,183 ha in total · 3 days
  27. 2,612 ha Furu-Awa fire, 1 December 2020 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,595 ha in total · 6 days
  28. 1 ha Fonfuka fire, November 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,205 ha in total · 7 days
  29. 1,829 ha Furu-Awa fire, November 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,915 ha in total · 9 days
  30. 1,102 ha Furu-Awa fire, March 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,094 ha in total · 4 days
  31. 425 ha Zhoa fire, 28 February 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 1,264 ha in total · 3 days
  32. 1,253 ha Furu-Awa fire, February 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,245 ha in total · 6 days
  33. 1,125 ha Furu-Awa fire, January 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,118 ha in total · 4 days
  34. 1,921 ha Furu-Awa fire, December 2019 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,909 ha in total · 5 days
  35. 3 ha Fonfuka fire, December 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,083 ha in total · 10 days
  36. 8,367 ha Furu-Awa fire, November 2019 where it started 7.0% of the municipality · 9,376 ha in total · 14 days
  37. 989 ha Furu-Awa fire, February 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,264 ha in total · 1 day
  38. 565 ha Misaje fire, December 2017 0.5% of the municipality · 1,105 ha in total · 7 days
  39. 1,743 ha Furu-Awa fire, 14 December 2017 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,732 ha in total · 10 days
  40. 1,583 ha Furu-Awa fire, 1 December 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,573 ha in total · 5 days
  41. 1,354 ha Furu-Awa fire, November 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,362 ha in total · 7 days
  42. 3 ha Fonfuka fire, 9 November 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,004 ha in total · 6 days
  43. 2,980 ha Furu-Awa fire, February 2017 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 2,972 ha in total · 8 days
  44. 1,777 ha Furu-Awa fire, 6 December 2016 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,766 ha in total · 2 days
  45. 1,383 ha Furu-Awa fire, 5 December 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,374 ha in total · 5 days
  46. 1,611 ha Furu-Awa fire, 5 December 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,600 ha in total · 2 days
  47. 1,092 ha Furu-Awa fire, 19 November 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,085 ha in total · 2 days
  48. 1,007 ha Furu-Awa fire, 13 November 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,000 ha in total · 3 days
  49. 805 ha Furu-Awa fire, 7 November 2016 where it started 0.7% 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).