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Wildfires in Touroua

Touroua, Cameroon, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 7,965 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.2% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 21).

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 Moderate 35° · 29 % · 18 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 34° · 27 % · 19 km/h
  3. Mon 26 High 35° · 28 % · 19 km/h
  4. Tue 27 High 35° · 37 % · 26 km/h
  5. Wed 28 High 35° · 33 % · 29 km/h
  6. Thu 29 High 36° · 26 % · 33 km/h
  7. Fri 30 High 36° · 21 % · 20 km/h
  8. Sat 31 High 36° · 29 % · 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

7,965
hectares burned
7.2 %
of its area
11
fires
1,106
km²

How many times has Touroua burned?

Touroua has burned 11 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Touroua fire, 29 January 2026, with 1,049 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 7,965 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 6,326 hectares, 5.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 3× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 2× 26
11
fires
7
years with fire
7,965
cumulative ha
6,326
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 Touroua

  1. 1,049 ha Touroua fire, 29 January 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,042 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 1,795 ha Touroua fire, 6 January 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,783 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 54 ha Ngong fire, 31 December 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 2,361 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 31 ha Béka fire, 22 January 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 1,397 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 0 ha Ngong fire, January 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,119 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 1,132 ha Touroua fire, January 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,125 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 341 ha Ngong fire, 16 January 2021 0.3% of the municipality · 1,589 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 1,014 ha Touroua fire, December 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,007 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 1,330 ha Touroua fire, December 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,321 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 1,016 ha Touroua fire, February 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,010 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 203 ha Poli fire, 6 January 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 2,011 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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