Wildfires in Lac Iro

Name: Lac Iro
Address: TD

Lac Iro, Chad, has had 101 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 320,379 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 18% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 40).

Only fires of 2,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast

Fri 23 Very high 39° · 13 % · 23 km/h
Sat 24 Very high 39° · 18 % · 23 km/h
Sun 25 Very high 39° · 11 % · 23 km/h
Mon 26 Very high 38° · 11 % · 22 km/h
Tue 27 Very high 40° · 11 % · 31 km/h
Wed 28 Very high 39° · 14 % · 41 km/h
Thu 29 Very high 38° · 26 % · 47 km/h
Fri 30 High 39° · 24 % · 35 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.

Since 2016

320,379
hectares burned: 18 %
of its area: 101
fires: 17,758
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Lac Iro

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).

Fire danger, today and the coming days

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

Hectares per year

Fires that entered Lac Iro

Where this data comes from