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Wildfires in Ho West

Ho West, Ghana, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 6,179 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.1% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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 8 Low 33° · 56 % · 23 km/h
  2. Mon 9 Low 32° · 63 % · 22 km/h
  3. Tue 10 Very low 30° · 67 % · 27 km/h
  4. Wed 11 Very low 30° · 70 % · 20 km/h
  5. Thu 12 Very low 32° · 55 % · 36 km/h
  6. Fri 13 Very low 31° · 63 % · 27 km/h
  7. Sat 14 Very low 31° · 61 % · 21 km/h
  8. Sun 15 Low 32° · 58 % · 34 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 Ho West: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

6,179
hectares burned
6.1 %
of its area
4
fires
1,009
km²

How many times has Ho West burned?

Ho West has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2020, 2022 and 2024. The most recent: Ho fire, December 2024, with 2,031 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
4
years with fire
6,179
cumulative ha
17 Dec 2024
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 Ho West

  1. 2,031 ha Ho fire, December 2024 2.0% of the municipality · 2,612 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 270 ha Adaklu fire, December 2022 0.3% of the municipality · 3,926 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 2,018 ha Ho West fire, February 2020 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,005 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 1,861 ha Ho West fire, January 2017 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,100 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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