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Wildfires in Bendjè

Bendjè, Gabon, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 14,505 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.8% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

Only fires of 1,000 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 Very low 31° · 65 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 33° · 61 % · 26 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 61 % · 30 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 33° · 89 % · 40 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 67 % · 30 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 91 % · 30 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 83 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 31° · 97 % · 31 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

14,505
hectares burned
1.8 %
of its area
10
fires
7,889
km²

How many times has Bendjè burned?

Bendjè has burned 10 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Komo-Océan fire, September 2026, with 331 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 14,505 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 12,535 hectares, 1.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
10
fires
8
years with fire
14,505
cumulative ha
12,535
distinct ha

Fires larger than 1,000 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 Gabon →

Fires that entered Bendjè

  1. 331 ha Komo-Océan fire, September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,524 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,637 ha Bendjè fire, August 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,626 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 1,471 ha Bendjè fire, April 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,461 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 1,169 ha Bendjè fire, 19 July 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,161 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 1,741 ha Bendjè fire, 18 July 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,730 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 1,180 ha Bendjè fire, 14 August 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,172 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 1,035 ha Bendjè fire, 10 August 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,028 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 1,147 ha Bendjè fire, August 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,176 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 2,942 ha Bendjè fire, August 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,937 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 1,851 ha Bendjè fire, July 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,839 ha in total · 1 day

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/geoBoundaries, Wikimedia (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License). 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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