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Wildfires in Jirapa

Jirapa, Ghana, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2023: 1,412 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.2% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 28).

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 High 37° · 26 % · 30 km/h
  2. Mon 9 High 36° · 35 % · 23 km/h
  3. Tue 10 Moderate 36° · 34 % · 26 km/h
  4. Wed 11 High 37° · 23 % · 29 km/h
  5. Thu 12 High 35° · 31 % · 26 km/h
  6. Fri 13 High 36° · 29 % · 32 km/h
  7. Sat 14 Very high 37° · 22 % · 38 km/h
  8. Sun 15 Very extreme 36° · 11 % · 43 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 Jirapa: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

1,412
hectares burned
1.2 %
of its area
3
fires
1,197
km²

How many times has Jirapa burned?

Jirapa has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Sissala West fire, 7 December 2024, with 147 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
1,412
cumulative ha
7 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 Jirapa

  1. 147 ha Sissala West fire, 7 December 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 8,170 ha in total · 20 days
  2. 3 ha Sissala West fire, 5 December 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 6,009 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 1,261 ha Lambussie-Karni fire, December 2023 1.0% of the municipality · 3,461 ha in total · 5 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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