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Wildfires in Monts de Lam

Monts de Lam, Chad, has had 19 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 56,329 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.5% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 25).

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. Tue 3 High 37° · 28 % · 25 km/h
  2. Wed 4 High 36° · 29 % · 22 km/h
  3. Thu 5 High 36° · 31 % · 29 km/h
  4. Fri 6 High 35° · 24 % · 35 km/h
  5. Sat 7 High 36° · 23 % · 31 km/h
  6. Sun 8 High 36° · 24 % · 23 km/h
  7. Mon 9 High 36° · 29 % · 27 km/h
  8. Tue 10 High 36° · 25 % · 27 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

56,329
hectares burned
5.5 %
of its area
19
fires
10,150
km²

How many times has Monts de Lam burned?

Monts de Lam has burned 19 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Monts de Lam fire, February 2026, with 3,207 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 56,329 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 45,641 hectares, 4.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 4× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 7× 26
19
fires
7
years with fire
56,329
cumulative ha
45,641
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 Monts de Lam

  1. 3,207 ha Monts de Lam fire, February 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,185 ha in total · 20 days
  2. 2,355 ha Monts de Lam fire, 31 January 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,343 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 2,261 ha Monts de Lam fire, 25 January 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,246 ha in total · 16 days
  4. 3,009 ha Monts de Lam fire, 16 January 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,990 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 5,812 ha Monts de Lam fire, 7 January 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,768 ha in total · 28 days
  6. 2,217 ha Monts de Lam fire, 4 January 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,467 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 2,401 ha Monts de Lam fire, 1 January 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,382 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 4,774 ha Monts de Lam fire, December 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,739 ha in total · 22 days
  9. 2,387 ha Monts de Lam fire, January 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,372 ha in total · 19 days
  10. 2,107 ha Monts de Lam fire, January 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,092 ha in total · 7 days
  11. 2,303 ha Monts de Lam fire, December 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,286 ha in total · 12 days
  12. 2,246 ha Monts de Lam fire, 4 January 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,229 ha in total · 11 days
  13. 3,165 ha Monts de Lam fire, 4 January 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,143 ha in total · 13 days
  14. 2,948 ha Monts de Lam fire, 4 January 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,926 ha in total · 15 days
  15. 2,242 ha Monts de Lam fire, 4 January 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,225 ha in total · 18 days
  16. 2,312 ha Monts de Lam fire, January 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,297 ha in total · 19 days
  17. 2,850 ha Monts de Lam fire, 29 December 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,830 ha in total · 13 days
  18. 4,527 ha Monts de Lam fire, 27 December 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,494 ha in total · 17 days
  19. 3,205 ha Monts de Lam fire, January 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,184 ha in total · 10 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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