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Wildfires in Mokolo

Mokolo, Cameroon, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 4,779 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.7% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 24).

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 High 31° · 22 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sun 25 High 31° · 19 % · 23 km/h
  3. Mon 26 High 32° · 22 % · 30 km/h
  4. Tue 27 High 32° · 22 % · 26 km/h
  5. Wed 28 High 31° · 19 % · 36 km/h
  6. Thu 29 High 31° · 21 % · 52 km/h
  7. Fri 30 High 32° · 20 % · 38 km/h
  8. Sat 31 High 32° · 19 % · 36 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

4,779
hectares burned
2.7 %
of its area
5
fires
1,794
km²

How many times has Mokolo burned?

Mokolo has burned 5 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Mozogo fire, January 2026, with 90 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,779 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,764 hectares, 2.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
5
fires
3
years with fire
4,779
cumulative ha
3,764
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 Mokolo

  1. 90 ha Mozogo fire, January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,645 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,431 ha Mokolo fire, January 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,430 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 917 ha Mokolo fire, January 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,170 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 1,323 ha Mokolo fire, 11 March 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,315 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 1,018 ha Mokolo fire, 4 March 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,011 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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