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Wildfires in Mongo

Mongo, Gabon, has had 16 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 24,109 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.8% 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. Fri 23 Very low 32° · 63 % · 29 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 31° · 65 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 31° · 70 % · 23 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 71 % · 20 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 64 % · 30 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 76 % · 27 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 77 % · 21 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 85 % · 23 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

24,109
hectares burned
3.8 %
of its area
16
fires
6,310
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Mongo

  1. 1,201 ha Mongo fire, August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,193 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,186 ha Mongo fire, 30 July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,178 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,019 ha Mongo fire, 3 July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,013 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 2,120 ha Mongo fire, June 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,105 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 1,144 ha Mongo fire, September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,136 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 1,256 ha Mongo fire, August 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,247 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 1,263 ha Mongo fire, 28 August 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,255 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 2,097 ha Mongo fire, 1 August 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,083 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 1,750 ha Mongo fire, July 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,738 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 1,154 ha Mongo fire, August 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,146 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 1,291 ha Mongo fire, July 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,282 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 1,764 ha Mongo fire, August 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,752 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 1,357 ha Mongo fire, July 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,348 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 1,014 ha Mongo fire, September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,007 ha in total · 1 day
  15. 1,106 ha Mongo fire, 28 August 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,098 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 3,390 ha Mongo fire, 18 August 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,367 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/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).