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Wildfires in Nyambaka

Nyambaka, Cameroon, has had 17 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 22,614 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.8% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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 Low 29° · 40 % · 21 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 28° · 51 % · 25 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Low 29° · 47 % · 33 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Low 28° · 37 % · 35 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Moderate 29° · 31 % · 33 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 56 % · 37 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Low 29° · 44 % · 29 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 28° · 62 % · 26 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

22,614
hectares burned
3.8 %
of its area
17
fires
5,913
km²

How many times has Nyambaka burned?

Nyambaka has burned 17 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Nyambaka fire, February 2026, with 1,478 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 22,614 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 18,367 hectares, 3.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 2× 26
17
fires
8
years with fire
22,614
cumulative ha
18,367
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 Nyambaka

  1. 1,478 ha Nyambaka fire, February 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,469 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 1,228 ha Nyambaka fire, January 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,220 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,734 ha Nyambaka fire, December 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,723 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 1,201 ha Nyambaka fire, 22 November 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,193 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 1,218 ha Nyambaka fire, 19 November 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,209 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 1,380 ha Nyambaka fire, 18 November 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,371 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 1,709 ha Nyambaka fire, December 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,709 ha in total · 12 days
  8. 2,720 ha Nyambaka fire, November 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,754 ha in total · 12 days
  9. 1,716 ha Nyambaka fire, November 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,710 ha in total · 10 days
  10. 1,038 ha Nyambaka fire, 16 January 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,031 ha in total · 11 days
  11. 1,087 ha Nyambaka fire, 6 January 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,081 ha in total · 7 days
  12. 1,203 ha Nyambaka fire, 4 January 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,196 ha in total · 11 days
  13. 1,303 ha Nyambaka fire, December 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,295 ha in total · 11 days
  14. 1,052 ha Nyambaka fire, November 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,176 ha in total · 13 days
  15. 1,104 ha Nyambaka fire, March 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,096 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 81 ha Meiganga fire, January 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,110 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 1,363 ha Nyambaka fire, November 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,555 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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