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Wildfires in La Pendé

La Pendé, Chad, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 13,055 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.2% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 17).

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 Moderate 36° · 30 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 36° · 28 % · 20 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 36° · 21 % · 24 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 36° · 19 % · 28 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 36° · 18 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 37° · 17 % · 29 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 36° · 16 % · 35 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 37° · 17 % · 28 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

13,055
hectares burned
5.2 %
of its area
5
fires
2,520
km²

How many times has La Pendé burned?

La Pendé has burned 5 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: La Pendé fire, January 2026, with 1,786 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 13,055 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 10,822 hectares, 4.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
5
fires
5
years with fire
13,055
cumulative ha
10,822
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 La Pendé

  1. 1,786 ha La Pendé fire, January 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,309 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 2,142 ha La Pendé fire, January 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,127 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 1,378 ha La Pendé fire, January 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,175 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 3,906 ha La Pendé fire, January 2017 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,879 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 3,843 ha Tandjilé Est fire, 28 December 2016 1.5% of the municipality · 5,843 ha in total · 8 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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