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Wildfires in Banda

Banda, Ghana, has had 16 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 38,359 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 17% 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. Tue 27 Low 33° · 53 % · 32 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 60 % · 30 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 63 % · 31 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 57 % · 62 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 59 % · 23 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Low 33° · 52 % · 23 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Low 33° · 52 % · 29 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Low 33° · 56 % · 44 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

38,359
hectares burned
17 %
of its area
16
fires
2,312
km²

How many times has Banda burned?

Banda has burned 16 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Banda fire, 25 January 2026, with 3,828 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 38,359 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 28,973 hectares, 13 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
16
fires
9
years with fire
38,359
cumulative ha
28,973
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 Banda

  1. 3,828 ha Banda fire, 25 January 2026 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 3,805 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 2,210 ha Banda fire, 16 January 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,197 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 2,186 ha Banda fire, 27 December 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,174 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 2,751 ha Banda fire, 16 December 2024 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,735 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 2,257 ha Banda fire, December 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,243 ha in total · 16 days
  6. 2,763 ha Banda fire, December 2022 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,747 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 2,121 ha Banda fire, January 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,107 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 2,153 ha Banda fire, December 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,140 ha in total · 13 days
  9. 2,036 ha Banda fire, 23 December 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,024 ha in total · 11 days
  10. 2,313 ha Banda fire, 23 December 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,299 ha in total · 14 days
  11. 2,326 ha Banda fire, 21 December 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,312 ha in total · 23 days
  12. 2,251 ha Banda fire, 13 December 2018 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,272 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 2,446 ha Banda fire, 10 December 2018 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,432 ha in total · 8 days
  14. 2,112 ha Banda fire, 5 December 2018 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,628 ha in total · 16 days
  15. 2,201 ha Banda fire, 21 December 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,188 ha in total · 11 days
  16. 2,405 ha Banda fire, 10 December 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,392 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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