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Wildfires in Kanem

Kanem, Chad, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2025: 6,702 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.7% of its area. Fire danger today: very extreme (FWI 80).

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. Thu 22 Very extreme 36° · 11 % · 56 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Very extreme 34° · 11 % · 51 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Very extreme 35° · 8 % · 45 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Very extreme 36° · 8 % · 47 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Very extreme 35° · 10 % · 41 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Extreme 36° · 10 % · 47 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Very extreme 36° · 15 % · 49 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Very extreme 36° · 15 % · 51 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

6,702
hectares burned
0.7 %
of its area
3
fires
9,758
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Kanem

  1. 4 ha Nord Kanem fire, 27 October 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 18,484 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 2,362 ha Kanem fire, October 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,347 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 4,336 ha Kanem fire, March 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,306 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).