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Wildfires in Mayo-Baléo

Mayo-Baléo, Cameroon, has had 19 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 18,489 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.1% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 11).

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 Low 32° · 40 % · 19 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 33° · 35 % · 16 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Moderate 33° · 41 % · 17 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Low 29° · 66 % · 18 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Low 32° · 42 % · 22 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Moderate 32° · 39 % · 26 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Moderate 33° · 31 % · 22 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Moderate 32° · 45 % · 27 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

18,489
hectares burned
5.1 %
of its area
19
fires
3,603
km²

How many times has Mayo-Baléo burned?

Mayo-Baléo has burned 19 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2017, 2018, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mayo-Baléo fire, March 2026, with 1,072 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 18,489 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 16,992 hectares, 4.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 5× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 7× 26
19
fires
7
years with fire
18,489
cumulative ha
16,992
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 Mayo-Baléo

  1. 1,072 ha Mayo-Baléo fire, March 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,065 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,022 ha Mayo-Baléo fire, 23 February 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,068 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 1,341 ha Mayo-Baléo fire, 19 February 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,332 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 65 ha Kontcha fire, February 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,195 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 137 ha Poli fire, 11 January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,013 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 1,008 ha Mayo-Baléo fire, 4 January 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,001 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 3,592 ha Mayo-Baléo fire, 1 January 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,771 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 1,255 ha Mayo-Baléo fire, December 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,247 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 66 ha Poli fire, 22 November 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 52,850 ha in total · 31 days
  10. 1,149 ha Mayo-Baléo fire, January 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,142 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 12 ha Poli fire, 10 December 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,219 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 1,114 ha Mayo-Baléo fire, 3 February 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,125 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 690 ha Mayo-Baléo fire, 3 February 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,267 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 1,065 ha Mayo-Baléo fire, 31 January 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,057 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 1,186 ha Mayo-Baléo fire, 30 January 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,178 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 1,100 ha Mayo-Baléo fire, January 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,092 ha in total · 4 days
  17. 1,528 ha Mayo-Baléo fire, January 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,518 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 1,033 ha Mayo-Baléo fire, December 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,025 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 54 ha Poli fire, 11 November 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,031 ha in total · 3 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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