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Wildfires in Batha Ouest

Batha Ouest, Chad, has had 51 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 208,067 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.2% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 59).

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. Sun 25 Extreme 37° · 10 % · 35 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Extreme 39° · 10 % · 30 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Extreme 39° · 10 % · 35 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very extreme 39° · 10 % · 35 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Extreme 39° · 11 % · 39 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Extreme 40° · 9 % · 37 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Extreme 40° · 10 % · 36 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Extreme 40° · 9 % · 37 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

208,067
hectares burned
4.2 %
of its area
51
fires
49,131
km²

How many times has Batha Ouest burned?

Batha Ouest has burned 51 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Batha Est fire, 2 February 2026, with 4,773 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 26× 20
  6. 7× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 12× 25
  11. 2× 26
51
fires
7
years with fire
208,067
cumulative ha
2 Feb 2026
most recent

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 Batha Ouest

  1. 4,773 ha Batha Est fire, 2 February 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 8,437 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 8,572 ha Batha Ouest fire, January 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 8,505 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 2,098 ha Batha Ouest fire, November 2025 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 2,082 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 1,560 ha Batha Ouest fire, 28 October 2025 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 3,447 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 9,747 ha Batha Ouest fire, 14 October 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 9,671 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 5,633 ha Batha Ouest fire, 14 October 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,580 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 2,237 ha Batha Ouest fire, 13 October 2025 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 3,541 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 2,138 ha Batha Ouest fire, 10 October 2025 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 2,121 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 3,298 ha Batha Ouest fire, 10 October 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,275 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 3,159 ha Batha Ouest fire, 10 October 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,136 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 3,696 ha Batha Ouest fire, 9 October 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,665 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 4,426 ha Batha Ouest fire, 7 October 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 4,396 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 2,454 ha Batha Ouest fire, 22 September 2025 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 2,429 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 9,732 ha Batha Ouest fire, 18 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 9,637 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 4,513 ha Batha Ouest fire, November 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 4,475 ha in total · 1 day
  16. 3,744 ha Batha Ouest fire, October 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,744 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 7,221 ha Batha Ouest fire, 27 October 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 7,162 ha in total · 2 days
  18. 2,296 ha Batha Ouest fire, 26 October 2021 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 2,274 ha in total · 1 day
  19. 3,348 ha Batha Ouest fire, 25 October 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,313 ha in total · 1 day
  20. 2,265 ha Batha Ouest fire, 25 October 2021 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 3,024 ha in total · 1 day
  21. 2,081 ha Batha Ouest fire, 3 October 2021 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 2,069 ha in total · 1 day
  22. 3,696 ha Batha Ouest fire, 2 October 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,673 ha in total · 2 days
  23. 3,000 ha Batha Ouest fire, February 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,980 ha in total · 1 day
  24. 2,379 ha Batha Ouest fire, 26 December 2020 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 2,364 ha in total · 1 day
  25. 2,748 ha Batha Ouest fire, 26 December 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,732 ha in total · 2 days
  26. 2,873 ha Batha Ouest fire, 26 December 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,854 ha in total · 1 day
  27. 2,067 ha Batha Ouest fire, 16 December 2020 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 2,053 ha in total · 2 days
  28. 6,776 ha Batha Ouest fire, 13 December 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 6,737 ha in total · 1 day
  29. 3,375 ha Batha Ouest fire, 6 December 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,342 ha in total · 2 days
  30. 4,289 ha Batha Ouest fire, 16 November 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 4,255 ha in total · 2 days
  31. 8,564 ha Batha Ouest fire, 15 November 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 8,483 ha in total · 3 days
  32. 3,365 ha Batha Ouest fire, 14 November 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,342 ha in total · 1 day
  33. 3,928 ha Batha Ouest fire, 14 November 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,893 ha in total · 2 days
  34. 2,158 ha Batha Ouest fire, 14 November 2020 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 2,141 ha in total · 2 days
  35. 19,946 ha Batha Ouest fire, 13 November 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 19,778 ha in total · 3 days
  36. 3,535 ha Batha Ouest fire, 13 November 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,508 ha in total · 2 days
  37. 2,346 ha Batha Ouest fire, 3 November 2020 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 2,337 ha in total · 1 day
  38. 2,646 ha Batha Ouest fire, 23 October 2020 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 2,632 ha in total · 1 day
  39. 2,930 ha Batha Ouest fire, 23 October 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,913 ha in total · 1 day
  40. 2,804 ha Batha Ouest fire, 23 October 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,785 ha in total · 1 day
  41. 6,609 ha Batha Ouest fire, 23 October 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 6,571 ha in total · 1 day
  42. 3,836 ha Batha Ouest fire, 23 October 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,812 ha in total · 1 day
  43. 2,617 ha Batha Ouest fire, 23 October 2020 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 2,602 ha in total · 1 day
  44. 3,111 ha Batha Ouest fire, 22 October 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,091 ha in total · 2 days
  45. 5,947 ha Batha Ouest fire, 22 October 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,906 ha in total · 3 days
  46. 2,400 ha Batha Ouest fire, 21 October 2020 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 2,382 ha in total · 2 days
  47. 2,067 ha Batha Ouest fire, 21 October 2020 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 2,054 ha in total · 2 days
  48. 3,150 ha Batha Ouest fire, September 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,124 ha in total · 2 days
  49. 2,497 ha Batha Ouest fire, February 2020 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 9,792 ha in total · 4 days
  50. 2,194 ha Batha Ouest fire, October 2018 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 2,175 ha in total · 1 day
  51. 1,222 ha Batha Est fire, 10 November 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 5,845 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/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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