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Wildfires in Komo-Océan

Komo-Océan, Gabon, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 5,722 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.5% 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. Thu 29 Very low 33° · 53 % · 26 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 90 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 73 % · 26 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 71 % · 35 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 33° · 69 % · 31 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 32° · 65 % · 31 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 73 % · 28 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 32° · 63 % · 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

5,722
hectares burned
1.5 %
of its area
5
fires
3,763
km²

How many times has Komo-Océan burned?

Komo-Océan has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2020, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Komo-Océan fire, September 2026, with 1,203 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 5,722 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,201 hectares, 1.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
5
fires
4
years with fire
5,722
cumulative ha
5,201
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 Komo-Océan

  1. 1,203 ha Komo-Océan fire, September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,524 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,062 ha Komo-Océan fire, 2 August 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,055 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 2,047 ha Komo-Océan fire, 2 August 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,033 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 1,394 ha Komo-Océan fire, August 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,385 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 14 ha Bendjè fire, August 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 2,937 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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