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Wildfires in Botto

Botto, Central African Republic, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2026: 16,583 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 20% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 35).

Only fires of 5,000 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 13 Very high 37° · 22 % · 36 km/h
  2. Sat 14 High 37° · 18 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Extreme 39° · 14 % · 31 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Very high 38° · 12 % · 25 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Very high 38° · 12 % · 24 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Extreme 37° · 15 % · 37 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Very high 37° · 26 % · 58 km/h
  8. Fri 20 High 35° · 33 % · 28 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Botto: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

16,583
hectares burned
20 %
of its area
2
fires
812
km²

How many times has Botto burned?

Botto has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2026. The most recent: Nana-Outa fire, 16 February 2026, with 529 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
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  11. 2× 26
2
fires
1
years with fire
16,583
cumulative ha
16 Feb 2026
most recent

Fires larger than 5,000 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 Central African Republic

Fires that entered Botto

  1. 529 ha Nana-Outa fire, 16 February 2026 0.6% of the municipality · 8,300 ha in total · 20 days
  2. 16,054 ha Botto fire, February 2026 where it started 20% of the municipality · 39,430 ha in total · 27 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED), OCHA Central African Republic (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). 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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