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Wildfires in Chereponi

Chereponi, Ghana, has had 21 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 54,981 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 40% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

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 Moderate 35° · 33 % · 18 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 35° · 37 % · 18 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 34° · 33 % · 19 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 35° · 36 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 34° · 42 % · 25 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 34° · 44 % · 26 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 35° · 42 % · 23 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 36° · 41 % · 27 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

54,981
hectares burned
40 %
of its area
21
fires
1,384
km²

How many times has Chereponi burned?

Chereponi has burned 21 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Gushegu fire, 9 January 2026, with 5,195 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 54,981 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 40,292 hectares, 29 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 5× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 2× 26
21
fires
10
years with fire
54,981
cumulative ha
40,292
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 Chereponi

  1. 5,195 ha Gushegu fire, 9 January 2026 3.8% of the municipality · 8,491 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 645 ha Bunkpurugu Nakpanduri fire, January 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 2,042 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 2,508 ha Gushegu fire, 12 January 2025 1.8% of the municipality · 2,555 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 2,316 ha Chereponi fire, February 2024 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,382 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 8,000 ha Gushegu fire, 18 January 2024 5.8% of the municipality · 9,413 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 969 ha Chereponi fire, January 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,637 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 3,931 ha Gushegu fire, 7 January 2023 2.8% of the municipality · 4,710 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 244 ha Gushegu fire, 28 December 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 3,249 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 770 ha Saboba fire, 30 January 2022 0.6% of the municipality · 3,493 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 2,001 ha Chereponi fire, 28 January 2022 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,265 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 2,413 ha Chereponi fire, 12 January 2022 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,399 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 2,336 ha Chereponi fire, 6 January 2022 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,321 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 907 ha Gushegu fire, December 2021 0.7% of the municipality · 2,107 ha in total · 6 days
  14. 1,134 ha Saboba fire, 30 January 2020 0.8% of the municipality · 2,024 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 2,189 ha Chereponi fire, January 2020 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,214 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 3,288 ha Chereponi fire, 2 January 2019 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 3,267 ha in total · 4 days
  17. 1,111 ha Chereponi fire, 1 January 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,598 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 2,554 ha Chereponi fire, 1 January 2019 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,539 ha in total · 9 days
  19. 2,041 ha Chereponi fire, 29 December 2017 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,028 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 7,481 ha Chereponi fire, 23 December 2017 where it started 5.4% of the municipality · 7,474 ha in total · 2 days
  21. 2,947 ha Chereponi fire, January 2016 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 2,932 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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