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Wildfires in Builsa North

Builsa North, Ghana, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 8,432 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 10% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 26).

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. Mon 9 High 37° · 29 % · 21 km/h
  2. Tue 10 High 36° · 30 % · 23 km/h
  3. Wed 11 High 36° · 36 % · 19 km/h
  4. Thu 12 High 36° · 31 % · 26 km/h
  5. Fri 13 High 36° · 28 % · 27 km/h
  6. Sat 14 Very high 36° · 27 % · 34 km/h
  7. Sun 15 Extreme 35° · 16 % · 39 km/h
  8. Mon 16 Very high 36° · 21 % · 28 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Builsa North: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

8,432
hectares burned
10 %
of its area
3
fires
822
km²

How many times has Builsa North burned?

Builsa North has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Builsa North fire, October 2026, with 2,377 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. 1× 26
3
fires
3
years with fire
8,432
cumulative ha
22 Oct 2026
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 Builsa North

  1. 2,377 ha Builsa North fire, October 2026 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 2,363 ha in total · 19 days
  2. 3,021 ha Builsa North fire, November 2025 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 3,017 ha in total · 18 days
  3. 3,034 ha Builsa North fire, November 2017 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 3,016 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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