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Wildfires in Kaya

Kaya, Chad, has had 17 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 66,813 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 17% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 64).

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 Very extreme 37° · 11 % · 48 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 37° · 8 % · 40 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Extreme 37° · 7 % · 41 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Extreme 38° · 8 % · 35 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Extreme 38° · 10 % · 38 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very extreme 38° · 12 % · 44 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Extreme 38° · 14 % · 49 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Extreme 38° · 13 % · 43 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

66,813
hectares burned
17 %
of its area
17
fires
3,820
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Kaya

  1. 2,219 ha Kaya fire, April 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,372 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 3,096 ha Kaya fire, February 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,080 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 4,394 ha Kaya fire, April 2024 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 5,826 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 166 ha Fouli fire, June 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 2,509 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 49 ha Mamdi fire, May 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 2,214 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 1,468 ha Kaya fire, March 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,383 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 356 ha Fouli fire, October 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 6,311 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 7,364 ha Kaya fire, October 2021 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 7,610 ha in total · 13 days
  9. 8,604 ha Kaya fire, October 2018 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 23,249 ha in total · 24 days
  10. 1,241 ha Fouli fire, 29 October 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 2,706 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 5,286 ha Kaya fire, 29 October 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 5,500 ha in total · 10 days
  12. 1,942 ha Kaya fire, 26 October 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,095 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 750 ha Kaya fire, 22 September 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,472 ha in total · 12 days
  14. 2,587 ha Kaya fire, 19 September 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,574 ha in total · 12 days
  15. 23,348 ha Kaya fire, 27 September 2016 where it started 6.1% of the municipality · 57,635 ha in total · 38 days
  16. 2,902 ha Kaya fire, 20 September 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,887 ha in total · 9 days
  17. 1,040 ha Kaya fire, March 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,326 ha in total · 4 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).