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Wildfires in Mougoutsi

Mougoutsi, Gabon, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 16,580 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.0% 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 31° · 53 % · 21 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 67 % · 24 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 65 % · 26 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 58 % · 21 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 70 % · 20 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 76 % · 25 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 55 % · 28 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 28° · 88 % · 24 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

16,580
hectares burned
5.0 %
of its area
10
fires
3,330
km²

How many times has Mougoutsi burned?

Mougoutsi has burned 10 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2018, 2020, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Mougoutsi fire, August 2025, with 1,741 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 16,580 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 12,058 hectares, 3.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
10
fires
6
years with fire
16,580
cumulative ha
12,058
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 Mougoutsi

  1. 1,741 ha Mougoutsi fire, August 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,730 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,411 ha Mougoutsi fire, August 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,402 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 1,402 ha Mougoutsi fire, 3 August 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,393 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 1,061 ha Mougoutsi fire, 3 August 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,054 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 1,981 ha Mougoutsi fire, July 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,968 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 2,324 ha Mougoutsi fire, August 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,309 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 1,020 ha Mougoutsi fire, 27 July 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,013 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 1,172 ha Mougoutsi fire, 11 July 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,164 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 1,074 ha Mougoutsi fire, 24 July 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,067 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 3,393 ha Mougoutsi fire, 16 July 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,370 ha in total · 3 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).

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