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Wildfires in Adaklu

Adaklu, Ghana, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 14,863 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 18% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

Only fires of 2,000 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 34° · 49 % · 18 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 34° · 47 % · 23 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 33° · 63 % · 30 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 64 % · 21 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 65 % · 24 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 56 % · 34 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 62 % · 39 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 58 % · 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

14,863
hectares burned
18 %
of its area
5
fires
806
km²

How many times has Adaklu burned?

Adaklu has burned 5 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Adaklu fire, January 2026, with 5,052 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 14,863 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 9,487 hectares, 12 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
5
fires
5
years with fire
14,863
cumulative ha
9,487
distinct ha

Fires larger than 2,000 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 Ghana →

Fires that entered Adaklu

  1. 5,052 ha Adaklu fire, January 2026 where it started 6.3% of the municipality · 5,019 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 3,681 ha Adaklu fire, December 2022 where it started 4.6% of the municipality · 3,926 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 3,052 ha Adaklu fire, December 2019 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 3,032 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 2,825 ha Adaklu fire, December 2018 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 2,807 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 253 ha Ho West fire, January 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 2,100 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/USAID Ghana HPNO, Ghana Statistical Service (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). 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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