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Wildfires in Nwa

Nwa, Cameroon, has had 18 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 21,163 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 15% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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 26° · 59 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 25° · 72 % · 31 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 27° · 61 % · 30 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 25° · 70 % · 26 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 24° · 73 % · 26 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 26° · 65 % · 32 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 58 % · 35 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 55 % · 32 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

21,163
hectares burned
15 %
of its area
18
fires
1,454
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Nwa

  1. 375 ha Nwa fire, 28 February 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,414 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 2,313 ha Nwa fire, 22 February 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 4,379 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 1,049 ha Nwa fire, 20 February 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,042 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 1,099 ha Nwa fire, January 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,092 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 2,792 ha Nwa fire, December 2025 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,795 ha in total · 13 days
  6. 1,007 ha Nwa fire, December 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,007 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 435 ha Nwa fire, 17 February 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,015 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 756 ha Nwa fire, 15 February 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,570 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 1,725 ha Nwa fire, March 2022 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,562 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 1,017 ha Nwa fire, February 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,052 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 931 ha Nwa fire, 28 February 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,083 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 1,252 ha Nwa fire, 22 February 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,244 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 54 ha Nwa fire, 22 February 2021 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,045 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 2,117 ha Nwa fire, February 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 6,874 ha in total · 10 days
  15. 1,407 ha Ako fire, February 2020 1.0% of the municipality · 1,457 ha in total · 12 days
  16. 1,062 ha Nwa fire, December 2018 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,055 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 1,335 ha Nwa fire, December 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,326 ha in total · 6 days
  18. 437 ha Nwa fire, February 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,976 ha in total · 13 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).