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Wildfires in Kimiti

Kimiti, Chad, has had 59 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 155,721 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.4% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 58).

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. Sat 24 Extreme 39° · 12 % · 31 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Extreme 39° · 12 % · 33 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very high 39° · 17 % · 28 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Extreme 40° · 10 % · 33 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Extreme 39° · 13 % · 43 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Extreme 39° · 10 % · 33 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Extreme 40° · 9 % · 35 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Extreme 40° · 9 % · 30 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

155,721
hectares burned
7.4 %
of its area
59
fires
21,147
km²

How many times has Kimiti burned?

Kimiti has burned 59 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kimiti fire, October 2026, with 4,684 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 7× 17
  3. 4× 18
  4. 6× 19
  5. 6× 20
  6. 8× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 7× 25
  11. 8× 26
59
fires
11
years with fire
155,721
cumulative ha
15 Oct 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 Kimiti

  1. 4,684 ha Kimiti fire, October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,660 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 3,231 ha Kimiti fire, 6 March 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,211 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 9,162 ha Kimiti fire, 2 March 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 9,099 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 2,910 ha Kimiti fire, February 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,887 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 2,201 ha Kimiti fire, 15 January 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,185 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 2,051 ha Kimiti fire, 11 January 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,039 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 2,384 ha Kimiti fire, 9 January 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,370 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 2,573 ha Kimiti fire, 2 January 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,918 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 2,105 ha Kimiti fire, 15 December 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,090 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 3,562 ha Kimiti fire, 8 December 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,542 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 2,086 ha Kimiti fire, 18 November 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,077 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 3,400 ha Kimiti fire, 10 November 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,381 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 3,448 ha Kimiti fire, October 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,426 ha in total · 6 days
  14. 3,357 ha Kimiti fire, March 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,334 ha in total · 1 day
  15. 3,287 ha Kimiti fire, February 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,268 ha in total · 3 days
  16. 3,013 ha Kimiti fire, December 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,998 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 2,088 ha Kimiti fire, May 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,073 ha in total · 1 day
  18. 2,176 ha Kimiti fire, March 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,163 ha in total · 4 days
  19. 2,115 ha Kimiti fire, 14 December 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,104 ha in total · 8 days
  20. 2,606 ha Kimiti fire, 2 December 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,590 ha in total · 2 days
  21. 1,770 ha Kimiti fire, January 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,364 ha in total · 3 days
  22. 3,033 ha Kimiti fire, April 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,012 ha in total · 2 days
  23. 2,599 ha Kimiti fire, February 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,585 ha in total · 3 days
  24. 2,117 ha Kimiti fire, January 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,102 ha in total · 2 days
  25. 3,227 ha Kimiti fire, 18 December 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,207 ha in total · 2 days
  26. 3,452 ha Kimiti fire, 16 December 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,432 ha in total · 4 days
  27. 431 ha Djourf Al Ahmar fire, 15 November 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,180 ha in total · 4 days
  28. 2,836 ha Kimiti fire, 28 February 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,814 ha in total · 5 days
  29. 2,191 ha Kimiti fire, 10 February 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,175 ha in total · 1 day
  30. 240 ha Haraze-Mangueigne fire, 28 January 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,820 ha in total · 5 days
  31. 801 ha Djourf Al Ahmar fire, 24 January 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 4,370 ha in total · 6 days
  32. 5,059 ha Kimiti fire, January 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,027 ha in total · 3 days
  33. 3,637 ha Kimiti fire, November 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,615 ha in total · 4 days
  34. 4,317 ha Kimiti fire, June 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,287 ha in total · 5 days
  35. 2,294 ha Kimiti fire, 27 March 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,279 ha in total · 3 days
  36. 3,389 ha Kimiti fire, 21 March 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,370 ha in total · 3 days
  37. 1,440 ha Kimiti fire, 11 March 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,118 ha in total · 2 days
  38. 3,027 ha Kimiti fire, January 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,010 ha in total · 10 days
  39. 2,463 ha Kimiti fire, December 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,439 ha in total · 1 day
  40. 2,045 ha Kimiti fire, 21 November 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,714 ha in total · 2 days
  41. 2,409 ha Kimiti fire, 19 November 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,391 ha in total · 2 days
  42. 2,557 ha Kimiti fire, 8 November 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,542 ha in total · 3 days
  43. 2,025 ha Kimiti fire, March 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,013 ha in total · 3 days
  44. 2,263 ha Kimiti fire, January 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,252 ha in total · 3 days
  45. 902 ha Kimiti fire, 28 December 2018 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 2,044 ha in total · 6 days
  46. 3,429 ha Kimiti fire, 26 December 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,405 ha in total · 4 days
  47. 2,024 ha Kimiti fire, April 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,129 ha in total · 4 days
  48. 192 ha Djourf Al Ahmar fire, March 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 2,162 ha in total · 2 days
  49. 2,953 ha Kimiti fire, 7 December 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,937 ha in total · 6 days
  50. 1,920 ha Kimiti fire, 4 December 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,184 ha in total · 4 days
  51. 1,873 ha Bahr-Azoum fire, 20 November 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 2,235 ha in total · 4 days
  52. 81 ha Djourf Al Ahmar fire, November 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 2,778 ha in total · 3 days
  53. 2,156 ha Kimiti fire, April 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,144 ha in total · 3 days
  54. 4,336 ha Kimiti fire, 26 February 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,308 ha in total · 4 days
  55. 5,382 ha Kimiti fire, 1 February 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,341 ha in total · 6 days
  56. 1,363 ha Kimiti fire, December 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,070 ha in total · 5 days
  57. 2,068 ha Kimiti fire, November 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,448 ha in total · 4 days
  58. 2,836 ha Kimiti fire, October 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,820 ha in total · 3 days
  59. 2,144 ha Kimiti fire, February 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,128 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).

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