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Wildfires in Mayo-Hourna

Mayo-Hourna, Cameroon, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 1,958 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.0% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 26).

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. Sun 25 High 36° · 22 % · 16 km/h
  2. Mon 26 High 36° · 27 % · 21 km/h
  3. Tue 27 High 35° · 38 % · 30 km/h
  4. Wed 28 High 36° · 29 % · 28 km/h
  5. Thu 29 High 36° · 25 % · 26 km/h
  6. Fri 30 High 36° · 22 % · 22 km/h
  7. Sat 31 High 37° · 31 % · 37 km/h
  8. Sun 1 High 37° · 33 % · 34 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

1,958
hectares burned
2.0 %
of its area
8
fires
963
km²

How many times has Mayo-Hourna burned?

Mayo-Hourna has burned 8 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Gachiga fire, February 2026, with 223 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,958 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,734 hectares, 1.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
8
fires
6
years with fire
1,958
cumulative ha
1,734
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-Hourna

  1. 223 ha Gachiga fire, February 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 2,266 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 0 ha Gachiga fire, 21 January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,025 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 117 ha Gachiga fire, 8 January 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 1,408 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 168 ha Gachiga fire, 8 January 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 2,643 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 627 ha Mayo-Hourna fire, January 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,076 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 648 ha Mayo-Hourna fire, February 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,063 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 48 ha Gachiga fire, January 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,353 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 127 ha Gachiga fire, 28 January 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 1,409 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).

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