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Wildfires in Lac Wey

Lac Wey, Chad, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 7,947 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.7% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 24).

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 Moderate 35° · 26 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sun 25 High 35° · 19 % · 23 km/h
  3. Mon 26 High 35° · 21 % · 22 km/h
  4. Tue 27 High 35° · 19 % · 31 km/h
  5. Wed 28 High 36° · 18 % · 36 km/h
  6. Thu 29 High 36° · 19 % · 36 km/h
  7. Fri 30 High 36° · 19 % · 27 km/h
  8. Sat 31 High 37° · 17 % · 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

7,947
hectares burned
2.7 %
of its area
3
fires
2,906
km²

How many times has Lac Wey burned?

Lac Wey has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2017. The most recent: Lac Wey fire, 17 December 2017, with 3,164 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 7,947 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 6,302 hectares, 2.2 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
7,947
cumulative ha
6,302
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 Lac Wey

  1. 3,164 ha Lac Wey fire, 17 December 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,143 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 2,489 ha Lac Wey fire, 15 December 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,473 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 2,293 ha Lac Wey fire, December 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,278 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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