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Wildfires in Gushegu

Gushegu, Ghana, has had 58 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 141,441 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 53% 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. Sun 1 Moderate 36° · 37 % · 23 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Moderate 35° · 48 % · 28 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Moderate 34° · 52 % · 27 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Moderate 35° · 45 % · 25 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Moderate 35° · 43 % · 24 km/h
  6. Fri 6 High 36° · 36 % · 26 km/h
  7. Sat 7 High 37° · 28 % · 26 km/h
  8. Sun 8 High 37° · 33 % · 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

141,441
hectares burned
53 %
of its area
58
fires
2,693
km²

How many times has Gushegu burned?

Gushegu has burned 58 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Gushegu fire, February 2026, with 2,437 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 6× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 9× 19
  5. 6× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7. 8× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 7× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 8× 26
58
fires
11
years with fire
141,441
cumulative ha
5 Feb 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 Gushegu

  1. 2,437 ha Gushegu fire, February 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,479 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 2,304 ha Gushegu fire, 22 January 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,771 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 39 ha Mion fire, 22 January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,684 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 1,149 ha Mion fire, 16 January 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 5,784 ha in total · 16 days
  5. 4,937 ha Gushegu fire, 12 January 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 5,581 ha in total · 21 days
  6. 27,037 ha Gushegu fire, 7 January 2026 where it started 10% of the municipality · 28,439 ha in total · 23 days
  7. 3,349 ha Gushegu fire, 6 January 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 8,491 ha in total · 23 days
  8. 12 ha Bunkpurugu Nakpanduri fire, January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,042 ha in total · 9 days
  9. 493 ha Yunyoo-Nasuan fire, December 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 3,227 ha in total · 18 days
  10. 3,962 ha Gushegu fire, 14 January 2025 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,939 ha in total · 16 days
  11. 62 ha Gushegu fire, 8 January 2025 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 2,555 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 81 ha Chereponi fire, February 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 2,382 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 1,362 ha Gushegu fire, 18 January 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 9,413 ha in total · 16 days
  14. 1,308 ha Mion fire, 15 January 2024 0.5% of the municipality · 2,940 ha in total · 10 days
  15. 157 ha Chereponi fire, January 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 4,637 ha in total · 8 days
  16. 1,567 ha Gushegu fire, 8 January 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,152 ha in total · 14 days
  17. 2,472 ha Gushegu fire, 6 January 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,458 ha in total · 13 days
  18. 4,324 ha Gushegu fire, 4 January 2024 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 4,300 ha in total · 21 days
  19. 808 ha Gushegu fire, 3 January 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,710 ha in total · 9 days
  20. 4,628 ha Gushegu fire, 1 January 2023 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 4,611 ha in total · 16 days
  21. 2,358 ha Gushegu fire, 27 December 2022 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,345 ha in total · 3 days
  22. 3,028 ha Gushegu fire, 24 December 2022 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,249 ha in total · 16 days
  23. 1,709 ha Gushegu fire, February 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,025 ha in total · 9 days
  24. 226 ha Mion fire, 1 February 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 2,881 ha in total · 3 days
  25. 2,392 ha Gushegu fire, 23 January 2022 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,443 ha in total · 18 days
  26. 1,300 ha Gushegu fire, 17 January 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,156 ha in total · 4 days
  27. 4,300 ha Gushegu fire, 10 January 2022 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 4,276 ha in total · 14 days
  28. 3,194 ha Karaga fire, 7 January 2022 1.2% of the municipality · 4,711 ha in total · 18 days
  29. 316 ha Karaga fire, 29 December 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 2,527 ha in total · 6 days
  30. 1,215 ha Gushegu fire, December 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,107 ha in total · 7 days
  31. 288 ha Karaga fire, 18 December 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 2,206 ha in total · 7 days
  32. 2,048 ha Gushegu fire, January 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,358 ha in total · 6 days
  33. 32 ha Karaga fire, December 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 4,453 ha in total · 20 days
  34. 4,105 ha Gushegu fire, February 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 4,138 ha in total · 2 days
  35. 19 ha Mion fire, January 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 3,476 ha in total · 14 days
  36. 38 ha Chereponi fire, January 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,214 ha in total · 4 days
  37. 1,978 ha Gushegu fire, 11 January 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,099 ha in total · 14 days
  38. 7,568 ha Gushegu fire, 2 January 2020 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 7,527 ha in total · 23 days
  39. 284 ha Mion fire, 9 February 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 2,737 ha in total · 9 days
  40. 1,307 ha Mion fire, 2 February 2019 0.5% of the municipality · 2,179 ha in total · 13 days
  41. 1,304 ha Saboba fire, 22 January 2019 0.5% of the municipality · 9,919 ha in total · 11 days
  42. 2,334 ha Gushegu fire, 22 January 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,320 ha in total · 17 days
  43. 2,226 ha Gushegu fire, 16 January 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,213 ha in total · 9 days
  44. 2,281 ha Gushegu fire, 13 January 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,267 ha in total · 19 days
  45. 2,442 ha Gushegu fire, 10 January 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,660 ha in total · 6 days
  46. 2,141 ha Gushegu fire, 2 January 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,214 ha in total · 4 days
  47. 934 ha Karaga fire, 1 January 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 2,099 ha in total · 5 days
  48. 5,965 ha Gushegu fire, December 2018 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 5,932 ha in total · 18 days
  49. 175 ha Karaga fire, 25 December 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 3,270 ha in total · 10 days
  50. 2,268 ha Karaga fire, 28 December 2017 0.8% of the municipality · 2,917 ha in total · 14 days
  51. 2,686 ha Gushegu fire, 10 December 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,671 ha in total · 19 days
  52. 2,256 ha Gushegu fire, 6 December 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,241 ha in total · 9 days
  53. 318 ha Karaga fire, November 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 2,130 ha in total · 5 days
  54. 4,078 ha Mion fire, January 2017 1.5% of the municipality · 8,269 ha in total · 10 days
  55. 4,368 ha Gushegu fire, January 2017 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 4,344 ha in total · 4 days
  56. 2,886 ha Gushegu fire, December 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,868 ha in total · 10 days
  57. 2,133 ha Gushegu fire, February 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,358 ha in total · 5 days
  58. 453 ha Karaga fire, January 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 2,433 ha in total · 10 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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