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Wildfires in Bawku West

Bawku West, Ghana, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 3,426 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.2% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 21).

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 Moderate 36° · 30 % · 18 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 36° · 27 % · 18 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Moderate 35° · 37 % · 25 km/h
  4. Tue 27 High 34° · 39 % · 28 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Moderate 34° · 45 % · 26 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Moderate 36° · 31 % · 24 km/h
  7. Fri 30 High 37° · 27 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sat 31 High 35° · 42 % · 26 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

3,426
hectares burned
3.2 %
of its area
2
fires
1,079
km²

How many times has Bawku West burned?

Bawku West has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2025. The most recent: Bawku West fire, November 2025, with 1,294 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
3,426
cumulative ha
19 Nov 2025
most recent

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 Bawku West

  1. 1,294 ha Bawku West fire, November 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,140 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 2,132 ha Bawku West fire, November 2017 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,121 ha in total · 6 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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