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Wildfires in Zhoa

Zhoa, Cameroon, has had 20 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 18,204 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.6% 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 28° · 48 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 26° · 64 % · 24 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 27° · 58 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 26° · 69 % · 20 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 25° · 73 % · 26 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 26° · 67 % · 23 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 51 % · 36 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 52 % · 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

18,204
hectares burned
8.6 %
of its area
20
fires
2,112
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Zhoa

  1. 742 ha Zhoa fire, March 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,211 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,231 ha Zhoa fire, 23 February 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,223 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 2,219 ha Zhoa fire, 20 February 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,204 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 1,214 ha Zhoa fire, 19 February 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,206 ha in total · 12 days
  5. 1,168 ha Zhoa fire, 1 February 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,161 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 1,728 ha Zhoa fire, December 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,181 ha in total · 10 days
  7. 168 ha Furu-Awa fire, 18 November 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 15,994 ha in total · 34 days
  8. 1,173 ha Zhoa fire, February 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,166 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 1,224 ha Zhoa fire, 28 February 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,698 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 428 ha Benakuma fire, 28 February 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 1,061 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 1,180 ha Zhoa fire, 12 February 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,172 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 98 ha Furu-Awa fire, November 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,915 ha in total · 9 days
  13. 847 ha Zhoa fire, 28 February 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,264 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 795 ha Zhoa fire, 18 February 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,112 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 31 ha Fonfuka fire, December 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,083 ha in total · 10 days
  16. 283 ha Furu-Awa fire, February 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 1,264 ha in total · 1 day
  17. 1,245 ha Zhoa fire, January 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,237 ha in total · 7 days
  18. 187 ha Fonfuka fire, 25 November 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 2,229 ha in total · 4 days
  19. 307 ha Fonfuka fire, November 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 1,304 ha in total · 7 days
  20. 1,935 ha Zhoa fire, February 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,922 ha in total · 2 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).