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Wildfires in Gachiga

Gachiga, Cameroon, has had 17 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 21,405 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 38% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 25).

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 High 35° · 20 % · 18 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 36° · 19 % · 18 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 35° · 25 % · 17 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 35° · 25 % · 27 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 36° · 25 % · 39 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 35° · 23 % · 34 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 37° · 17 % · 37 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 35° · 22 % · 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

21,405
hectares burned
38 %
of its area
17
fires
569
km²

How many times has Gachiga burned?

Gachiga has burned 17 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Gachiga fire, February 2026, with 2,058 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 21,405 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 14,246 hectares, 25 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 3× 26
17
fires
9
years with fire
21,405
cumulative ha
14,246
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 Gachiga

  1. 2,058 ha Gachiga fire, February 2026 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 2,266 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 1,031 ha Gachiga fire, 21 January 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,025 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 1,278 ha Gachiga fire, 5 January 2026 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,270 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 1,785 ha Gachiga fire, December 2025 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 1,773 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 41 ha Baschéo fire, February 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 1,103 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 1,033 ha Gachiga fire, February 2022 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,026 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 1,798 ha Gachiga fire, 13 January 2021 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 1,787 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 1,300 ha Gachiga fire, 8 January 2021 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 1,408 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 1,080 ha Gachiga fire, 27 January 2020 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 1,073 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 2,492 ha Gachiga fire, 8 January 2020 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 2,643 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 456 ha Mayo-Hourna fire, January 2018 0.8% of the municipality · 1,076 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 422 ha Mayo-Hourna fire, February 2017 0.7% of the municipality · 1,063 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 1,314 ha Gachiga fire, January 2017 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 1,353 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 1,173 ha Gachiga fire, December 2016 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 1,165 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 1,290 ha Gachiga fire, 28 January 2016 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 1,409 ha in total · 9 days
  16. 1,577 ha Gachiga fire, 20 January 2016 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 1,567 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 1,277 ha Gachiga fire, 9 January 2016 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,269 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).

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