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Wildfires in Ngong

Ngong, Cameroon, has had 24 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 35,867 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 14% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 22).

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 Moderate 35° · 20 % · 19 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 34° · 21 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 35° · 25 % · 22 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 36° · 26 % · 26 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 36° · 31 % · 29 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 35° · 28 % · 31 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 36° · 19 % · 35 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 35° · 23 % · 21 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

35,867
hectares burned
14 %
of its area
24
fires
2,651
km²

How many times has Ngong burned?

Ngong has burned 24 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Lagdo fire, 2 February 2026, with 1,704 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 35,867 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 29,535 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 6× 26
24
fires
9
years with fire
35,867
cumulative ha
29,535
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 Ngong

  1. 1,704 ha Lagdo fire, 2 February 2026 0.6% of the municipality · 3,421 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 1,015 ha Ngong fire, 31 January 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,009 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 1,216 ha Ngong fire, 29 January 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,209 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 1,445 ha Ngong fire, 23 January 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,435 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 1,062 ha Ngong fire, 21 January 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,054 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 4,941 ha Ngong fire, 3 January 2026 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 4,911 ha in total · 17 days
  7. 2,321 ha Ngong fire, 31 December 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,361 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 1,857 ha Ngong fire, 24 December 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,845 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 2,319 ha Ngong fire, 29 January 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,306 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 1,844 ha Ngong fire, 11 January 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,832 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 1,162 ha Ngong fire, January 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,154 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 1,126 ha Ngong fire, January 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,119 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 1,403 ha Ngong fire, December 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,395 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 208 ha Ngong fire, 25 January 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,670 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 1,258 ha Ngong fire, 16 January 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,589 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 1,928 ha Ngong fire, 11 January 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,915 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 1,171 ha Ngong fire, February 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,163 ha in total · 5 days
  18. 282 ha Poli fire, 4 February 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 1,168 ha in total · 6 days
  19. 1,178 ha Ngong fire, January 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,170 ha in total · 6 days
  20. 1,252 ha Ngong fire, January 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,244 ha in total · 3 days
  21. 2,107 ha Ngong fire, 5 February 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,094 ha in total · 4 days
  22. 1,022 ha Ngong fire, 1 February 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,016 ha in total · 2 days
  23. 1,011 ha Ngong fire, 14 January 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,069 ha in total · 3 days
  24. 1,034 ha Ngong fire, 6 January 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,028 ha in total · 5 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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