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Wildfires in Tokombéré

Tokombéré, Cameroon, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 2,807 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.0% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 26).

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. Sat 24 High 33° · 25 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sun 25 High 32° · 24 % · 26 km/h
  3. Mon 26 High 33° · 24 % · 25 km/h
  4. Tue 27 High 33° · 22 % · 32 km/h
  5. Wed 28 High 32° · 25 % · 26 km/h
  6. Thu 29 High 34° · 24 % · 43 km/h
  7. Fri 30 High 34° · 23 % · 36 km/h
  8. Sat 31 High 35° · 22 % · 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

2,807
hectares burned
9.0 %
of its area
2
fires
312
km²

How many times has Tokombéré burned?

Tokombéré has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2019. The most recent: Tokombéré fire, February 2019, with 1,083 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
2,807
cumulative ha
21 Feb 2019
most recent

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 Tokombéré

  1. 1,083 ha Tokombéré fire, February 2019 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 1,076 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,724 ha Tokombéré fire, January 2017 where it started 5.5% of the municipality · 1,713 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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