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Wildfires in Mpassa

Mpassa, Gabon, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 6,082 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.2% 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 26° · 90 % · 13 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 32° · 54 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 30° · 67 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 32° · 53 % · 19 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 73 % · 25 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 61 % · 25 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 63 % · 21 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 59 % · 22 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

6,082
hectares burned
1.2 %
of its area
7
fires
5,279
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Mpassa

  1. 905 ha Plateaux fire, October 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 1,215 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,438 ha Mpassa fire, August 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,428 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 148 ha Plateaux fire, 18 August 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 1,507 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 222 ha Plateaux fire, August 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,069 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 1,091 ha Mpassa fire, 16 August 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,083 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 1,205 ha Mpassa fire, 9 August 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,197 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 1,074 ha Mpassa fire, September 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,067 ha in total · 4 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).