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Wildfires in Dormaa

Dormaa, Ghana, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 23,930 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 20% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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 Very low 30° · 71 % · 30 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 31° · 67 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 31° · 58 % · 18 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 61 % · 23 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 31° · 57 % · 33 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 63 % · 33 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 61 % · 36 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 79 % · 32 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

23,930
hectares burned
20 %
of its area
3
fires
1,218
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Dormaa

  1. 18,438 ha Dormaa fire, January 2025 where it started 15% of the municipality · 19,008 ha in total · 18 days
  2. 3,016 ha Dormaa fire, February 2020 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 3,014 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 2,476 ha Dormaa fire, February 2016 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,460 ha in total · 7 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).