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Wildfires in Nord Kanem

Nord Kanem, Chad, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 40,763 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.7% of its area. Fire danger today: very extreme (FWI 113).

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 7 Very extreme 36° · 12 % · 41 km/h
  2. Sun 8 Very extreme 36° · 12 % · 45 km/h
  3. Mon 9 Very extreme 35° · 14 % · 42 km/h
  4. Tue 10 Very extreme 34° · 16 % · 43 km/h
  5. Wed 11 Very extreme 30° · 17 % · 44 km/h
  6. Thu 12 Very extreme 29° · 14 % · 38 km/h
  7. Fri 13 Very extreme 30° · 10 % · 37 km/h
  8. Sat 14 Very extreme 31° · 10 % · 37 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Nord Kanem: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

40,763
hectares burned
0.7 %
of its area
7
fires
60,525
km²

How many times has Nord Kanem burned?

Nord Kanem has burned 7 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2022, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Nord Kanem fire, 30 October 2025, with 9,663 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 4× 25
  11.   26
7
fires
4
years with fire
40,763
cumulative ha
30 Oct 2025
most recent

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 Nord Kanem

  1. 9,663 ha Nord Kanem fire, 30 October 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 9,652 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 18,505 ha Nord Kanem fire, 26 October 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 18,484 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 2,631 ha Nord Kanem fire, 23 October 2025 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 2,629 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 3,000 ha Nord Kanem fire, 23 October 2025 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 2,998 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 2,124 ha Nord Kanem fire, October 2024 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 2,120 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 2,359 ha Nord Kanem fire, October 2022 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 2,355 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 2,481 ha Nord Kanem fire, December 2017 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 2,479 ha in total · 2 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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