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Wildfires in Loug-Chari

Loug-Chari, Chad, has had 38 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 103,136 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.7% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 36).

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. Mon 26 High 38° · 14 % · 19 km/h
  2. Tue 27 High 40° · 13 % · 26 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very high 39° · 16 % · 31 km/h
  4. Thu 29 High 39° · 17 % · 17 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very high 40° · 16 % · 27 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very high 39° · 16 % · 25 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very high 39° · 21 % · 26 km/h
  8. Mon 2 High 39° · 19 % · 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

103,136
hectares burned
6.7 %
of its area
38
fires
15,434
km²

How many times has Loug-Chari burned?

Loug-Chari has burned 38 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Loug-Chari fire, February 2026, with 2,069 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 103,136 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 84,668 hectares, 5.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 8× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 6× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 6× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 4× 26
38
fires
11
years with fire
103,136
cumulative ha
84,668
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 Loug-Chari

  1. 2,069 ha Loug-Chari fire, February 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,052 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 2,470 ha Loug-Chari fire, 19 January 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,453 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 3,342 ha Baguirmi fire, January 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 7,591 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 2,404 ha Loug-Chari fire, 4 January 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,384 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 5,224 ha Loug-Chari fire, December 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,182 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 1,387 ha Loug-Chari fire, November 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,227 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 2,076 ha Loug-Chari fire, February 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,061 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 5,313 ha Loug-Chari fire, January 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,272 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 451 ha Baguirmi fire, 6 January 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 3,206 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 938 ha Barh-Signaka fire, 25 January 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 2,066 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 3,256 ha Loug-Chari fire, February 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,233 ha in total · 9 days
  12. 2,038 ha Loug-Chari fire, 28 December 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,022 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 2,780 ha Loug-Chari fire, 20 December 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,762 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 3,321 ha Loug-Chari fire, 16 December 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,297 ha in total · 9 days
  15. 2,529 ha Loug-Chari fire, 30 November 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,509 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 4,217 ha Loug-Chari fire, 26 November 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,185 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 2,770 ha Loug-Chari fire, January 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,749 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 2,440 ha Loug-Chari fire, December 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,423 ha in total · 9 days
  19. 2,851 ha Loug-Chari fire, February 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,829 ha in total · 5 days
  20. 3,701 ha Loug-Chari fire, 30 December 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,672 ha in total · 5 days
  21. 44 ha Bahr-Köh fire, 27 December 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 2,923 ha in total · 8 days
  22. 4,094 ha Loug-Chari fire, 21 December 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,064 ha in total · 4 days
  23. 2,946 ha Loug-Chari fire, 13 December 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,927 ha in total · 8 days
  24. 3,364 ha Loug-Chari fire, March 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,338 ha in total · 4 days
  25. 1,628 ha Loug-Chari fire, January 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,179 ha in total · 6 days
  26. 1,067 ha Tandjilé Est fire, January 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 3,410 ha in total · 12 days
  27. 2,773 ha Loug-Chari fire, December 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,752 ha in total · 3 days
  28. 4,643 ha Loug-Chari fire, November 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,611 ha in total · 6 days
  29. 57 ha Baguirmi fire, January 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 6,873 ha in total · 2 days
  30. 4,689 ha Loug-Chari fire, January 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,656 ha in total · 5 days
  31. 2,629 ha Loug-Chari fire, December 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,615 ha in total · 8 days
  32. 2,681 ha Loug-Chari fire, 30 November 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,663 ha in total · 9 days
  33. 2,083 ha Loug-Chari fire, 20 November 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,067 ha in total · 4 days
  34. 2,053 ha Loug-Chari fire, 20 November 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,038 ha in total · 4 days
  35. 2,417 ha Loug-Chari fire, 2 November 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,397 ha in total · 3 days
  36. 1,540 ha Baguirmi fire, 2 November 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 3,752 ha in total · 3 days
  37. 5,291 ha Loug-Chari fire, 4 January 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,250 ha in total · 9 days
  38. 3,561 ha Loug-Chari fire, 2 January 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,532 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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