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Wildfires in Bole

Bole, Ghana, has had 32 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 85,450 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 14% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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. Fri 23 Low 34° · 46 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 33° · 49 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 35° · 36 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 33° · 49 % · 26 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 32° · 50 % · 25 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 33° · 45 % · 28 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 34° · 55 % · 27 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 32° · 56 % · 40 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

85,450
hectares burned
14 %
of its area
32
fires
6,210
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Bole

  1. 3,918 ha Bole fire, 21 January 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,894 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 3,347 ha Bole fire, 20 January 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,329 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 37 ha Central Gonja fire, 14 January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,620 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 9,202 ha Bole fire, 9 January 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 16,371 ha in total · 23 days
  5. 7,113 ha Bole fire, November 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 7,060 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 2,619 ha Bole fire, 17 December 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,608 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 2,594 ha Bole fire, 16 December 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,601 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 2,025 ha Bole fire, 30 November 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,010 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 3,176 ha Bole fire, 30 November 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,254 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 2,458 ha Bole fire, 12 December 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,440 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 2,961 ha Bole fire, 11 December 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,939 ha in total · 10 days
  12. 3,047 ha Bole fire, 9 December 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,157 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 1 ha West Gonja fire, 6 December 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 2,599 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 2,979 ha Bole fire, November 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,960 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 2,060 ha Kintampo North fire, 13 November 2020 0.3% of the municipality · 2,114 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 3,381 ha Bole fire, 14 January 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,359 ha in total · 7 days
  17. 2,220 ha Bole fire, 3 January 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,206 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 5 ha Central Gonja fire, 1 January 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,078 ha in total · 6 days
  19. 16 ha Kintampo North fire, 29 December 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 7,231 ha in total · 7 days
  20. 2,787 ha Bole fire, 26 December 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,805 ha in total · 11 days
  21. 2,728 ha Bole fire, 14 December 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,708 ha in total · 4 days
  22. 2,794 ha Bole fire, 7 December 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,397 ha in total · 8 days
  23. 2,039 ha Bole fire, December 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,028 ha in total · 8 days
  24. 2,295 ha Bole fire, 9 January 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,331 ha in total · 3 days
  25. 2,359 ha Bole fire, 6 January 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,346 ha in total · 9 days
  26. 2,563 ha Bole fire, 15 December 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,584 ha in total · 4 days
  27. 4,818 ha Bole fire, 1 December 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,783 ha in total · 8 days
  28. 2,091 ha Bole fire, 1 December 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,078 ha in total · 4 days
  29. 2,803 ha Bole fire, January 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,788 ha in total · 5 days
  30. 886 ha Sawla-Tuna-Kalba fire, 30 November 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 2,780 ha in total · 6 days
  31. 2,078 ha Bole fire, 25 November 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,063 ha in total · 2 days
  32. 2,050 ha Bole fire, 14 November 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,035 ha in total · 2 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).