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Wildfires in Hohoe

Hohoe, Ghana, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 15,617 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 23% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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. Sat 31 Very low 33° · 47 % · 17 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 58 % · 26 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 75 % · 20 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 72 % · 23 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 31° · 62 % · 23 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 32° · 62 % · 19 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 32° · 64 % · 19 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 32° · 62 % · 18 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

15,617
hectares burned
23 %
of its area
6
fires
689
km²

How many times has Hohoe burned?

Hohoe has burned 6 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2020, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Biakoye fire, 5 January 2025, with 517 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 15,617 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 9,687 hectares, 14 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
6
fires
4
years with fire
15,617
cumulative ha
9,687
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 Hohoe

  1. 517 ha Biakoye fire, 5 January 2025 0.8% of the municipality · 4,401 ha in total · 17 days
  2. 2,952 ha Hohoe fire, December 2024 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 2,933 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 272 ha Jasikan fire, February 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 2,636 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 5,967 ha Hohoe fire, January 2020 where it started 8.7% of the municipality · 10,762 ha in total · 28 days
  5. 1,374 ha Hohoe fire, 21 January 2016 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,179 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 4,535 ha Hohoe fire, 21 January 2016 where it started 6.6% of the municipality · 5,096 ha in total · 17 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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