Wildfires in Poli

Name: Poli
Address: CM

Poli, Cameroon: 632 fires since 2016 burned 1,182,693 hectares inside its boundaries, 1.2 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

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

Thu 22 Moderate 36° · 28 % · 19 km/h
Fri 23 Moderate 34° · 35 % · 16 km/h
Sat 24 Moderate 35° · 28 % · 22 km/h
Sun 25 Moderate 35° · 24 % · 17 km/h
Mon 26 Moderate 35° · 32 % · 16 km/h
Tue 27 Moderate 35° · 33 % · 25 km/h
Wed 28 High 36° · 24 % · 28 km/h
Thu 29 High 36° · 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.

Since 2016

1,182,693
hectares burned: 1.2×
times its area (some ground burned more than once): 632
fires: 10,113
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Poli

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).

Fire danger, today and the coming days

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

Hectares per year

Fires that entered Poli

Where this data comes from