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Wildfires in Ho

Ho, Ghana, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2022: 3,207 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.6% 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 31° · 60 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 31° · 65 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 31° · 64 % · 18 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 31° · 60 % · 21 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 61 % · 31 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 69 % · 25 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 67 % · 25 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 67 % · 37 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

3,207
hectares burned
5.6 %
of its area
2
fires
577
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Ho

  1. 599 ha Ho fire, December 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,612 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 2,608 ha Ho fire, January 2022 where it started 4.5% of the municipality · 2,591 ha in total · 9 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).