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Wildfires in Kouh Ouest

Kouh Ouest, Chad, has had 22 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 70,336 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 34% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 16).

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 1 Moderate 34° · 44 % · 23 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Moderate 35° · 38 % · 17 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Moderate 36° · 29 % · 19 km/h
  4. Wed 4 High 36° · 23 % · 25 km/h
  5. Thu 5 High 37° · 23 % · 25 km/h
  6. Fri 6 High 37° · 19 % · 32 km/h
  7. Sat 7 High 37° · 19 % · 34 km/h
  8. Sun 8 High 37° · 27 % · 32 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

70,336
hectares burned
34 %
of its area
22
fires
2,092
km²

How many times has Kouh Ouest burned?

Kouh Ouest has burned 22 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2025. The most recent: Kouh Est fire, December 2025, with 46 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 70,336 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 43,079 hectares, 21 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 9× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
22
fires
8
years with fire
70,336
cumulative ha
43,079
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 Kouh Ouest

  1. 46 ha Kouh Est fire, December 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 4,371 ha in total · 18 days
  2. 2,387 ha Kouh Ouest fire, January 2022 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,858 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 5,949 ha Kouh Ouest fire, 15 January 2021 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 5,911 ha in total · 21 days
  4. 2,734 ha Kouh Ouest fire, 10 January 2021 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,717 ha in total · 17 days
  5. 2,318 ha Kouh Ouest fire, 6 February 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,304 ha in total · 14 days
  6. 3,906 ha Kouh Ouest fire, 4 February 2020 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 3,883 ha in total · 19 days
  7. 1,641 ha Kouh Ouest fire, 19 January 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,110 ha in total · 15 days
  8. 3,986 ha Kouh Ouest fire, 11 January 2019 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 3,962 ha in total · 15 days
  9. 2,138 ha Kouh Ouest fire, 10 January 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,130 ha in total · 16 days
  10. 3,693 ha La Nya Pendé fire, January 2018 1.8% of the municipality · 4,224 ha in total · 13 days
  11. 2,021 ha Kouh Ouest fire, January 2018 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,008 ha in total · 7 days
  12. 2,950 ha Kouh Ouest fire, 14 January 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,932 ha in total · 11 days
  13. 7,678 ha Kouh Ouest fire, 7 January 2017 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 7,628 ha in total · 14 days
  14. 831 ha Kouh Est fire, December 2016 0.4% of the municipality · 3,493 ha in total · 16 days
  15. 2,047 ha Kouh Ouest fire, 21 January 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,034 ha in total · 14 days
  16. 9,742 ha Kouh Ouest fire, 20 January 2016 where it started 4.7% of the municipality · 9,683 ha in total · 27 days
  17. 141 ha La Nya fire, January 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 2,368 ha in total · 9 days
  18. 6,154 ha Kouh Ouest fire, 15 January 2016 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 6,116 ha in total · 26 days
  19. 664 ha Barh-Sara fire, 14 January 2016 0.3% of the municipality · 2,343 ha in total · 13 days
  20. 4,898 ha Kouh Ouest fire, 13 January 2016 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 7,172 ha in total · 24 days
  21. 2,024 ha Kouh Ouest fire, 8 January 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,011 ha in total · 22 days
  22. 2,388 ha Kouh Ouest fire, 6 January 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,372 ha in total · 15 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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