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Wildfires in Ngaoundal

Ngaoundal, Cameroon, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 3,397 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.9% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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 29° · 50 % · 19 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 30° · 39 % · 24 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 30° · 41 % · 16 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 53 % · 18 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 29° · 53 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 29° · 48 % · 30 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 31° · 36 % · 35 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 30° · 37 % · 16 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

3,397
hectares burned
0.9 %
of its area
4
fires
3,735
km²

How many times has Ngaoundal burned?

Ngaoundal has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2021, 2023 and 2025. The most recent: Ngaoundal fire, December 2025, with 778 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 3,397 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 2,723 hectares, 0.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11.   26
4
fires
3
years with fire
3,397
cumulative ha
2,723
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 Ngaoundal

  1. 778 ha Ngaoundal fire, December 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,717 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 1,232 ha Ngaoundal fire, February 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,224 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 369 ha Bétaré-Oya fire, 11 February 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 5,624 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 1,019 ha Ngaoundal fire, February 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,012 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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