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Wildfires in Abtouyour

Abtouyour, Chad, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 36,636 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.8% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 51).

Only fires of 2,000 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 Extreme 38° · 13 % · 35 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 38° · 12 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Extreme 38° · 11 % · 31 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Extreme 39° · 10 % · 26 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Extreme 40° · 10 % · 31 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Extreme 40° · 10 % · 33 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Extreme 40° · 13 % · 41 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very high 40° · 14 % · 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

36,636
hectares burned
3.8 %
of its area
6
fires
9,660
km²

How many times has Abtouyour burned?

Abtouyour has burned 6 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2019, 2020, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Abtouyour fire, 18 January 2026, with 3,655 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 36,636 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 34,473 hectares, 3.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 2× 26
6
fires
4
years with fire
36,636
cumulative ha
34,473
distinct ha

Fires larger than 2,000 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 Chad →

Fires that entered Abtouyour

  1. 3,655 ha Abtouyour fire, 18 January 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,999 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 19,882 ha Abtouyour fire, 7 January 2026 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 19,749 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 2,388 ha Abtouyour fire, January 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,370 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 3,157 ha Abtouyour fire, 15 April 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,140 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 4,606 ha Abtouyour fire, 10 April 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,580 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 2,949 ha Abtouyour fire, December 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,932 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/OCHA Chad, OCHA Chad (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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