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Wildfires in Barh-Sara

Barh-Sara, Chad, has had 16 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 38,685 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.5% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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. Wed 28 High 36° · 33 % · 32 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 36° · 40 % · 28 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Moderate 35° · 40 % · 22 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Moderate 35° · 38 % · 25 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Moderate 35° · 36 % · 28 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Moderate 34° · 45 % · 27 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Moderate 36° · 37 % · 23 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Moderate 37° · 39 % · 44 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

38,685
hectares burned
4.5 %
of its area
16
fires
8,588
km²

How many times has Barh-Sara burned?

Barh-Sara has burned 16 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Barh-Sara fire, 15 February 2026, with 2,287 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 38,685 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 35,435 hectares, 4.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 7× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
16
fires
7
years with fire
38,685
cumulative ha
35,435
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 Barh-Sara

  1. 2,287 ha Barh-Sara fire, 15 February 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,507 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 4,984 ha Barh-Sara fire, 7 February 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 8,329 ha in total · 29 days
  3. 403 ha Grande Sido fire, February 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 3,182 ha in total · 16 days
  4. 2,130 ha Barh-Sara fire, February 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,457 ha in total · 12 days
  5. 2,331 ha Barh-Sara fire, 17 January 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,318 ha in total · 21 days
  6. 2,402 ha Barh-Sara fire, 17 January 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,388 ha in total · 22 days
  7. 2,203 ha Barh-Sara fire, January 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,189 ha in total · 16 days
  8. 3,392 ha Barh-Sara fire, December 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,372 ha in total · 12 days
  9. 2,104 ha Barh-Sara fire, January 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,092 ha in total · 18 days
  10. 2,509 ha Barh-Sara fire, February 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,495 ha in total · 15 days
  11. 2,659 ha Barh-Sara fire, 30 January 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,644 ha in total · 13 days
  12. 3,305 ha Barh-Sara fire, 25 January 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,286 ha in total · 19 days
  13. 2,190 ha Barh-Sara fire, 22 January 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,503 ha in total · 12 days
  14. 2,106 ha Barh-Sara fire, 18 January 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,093 ha in total · 14 days
  15. 2,157 ha Barh-Sara fire, 17 January 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,144 ha in total · 20 days
  16. 1,523 ha Barh-Sara fire, 14 January 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,343 ha in total · 13 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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