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Wildfires in Kadjebi

Kadjebi, Ghana, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 15,711 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 23% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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 24 Very low 34° · 48 % · 18 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 33° · 54 % · 23 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 32° · 60 % · 28 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 79 % · 22 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 62 % · 31 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 33° · 55 % · 32 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 62 % · 26 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 60 % · 25 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

15,711
hectares burned
23 %
of its area
9
fires
694
km²

How many times has Kadjebi burned?

Kadjebi has burned 9 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2023. The most recent: Biakoye fire, February 2023, with 131 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 15,711 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 11,804 hectares, 17 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
9
fires
5
years with fire
15,711
cumulative ha
11,804
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 Kadjebi

  1. 131 ha Biakoye fire, February 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 3,273 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 507 ha Jasikan fire, January 2022 0.7% of the municipality · 2,146 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 2,630 ha Kadjebi fire, February 2020 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 2,839 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 2,595 ha Kadjebi fire, January 2020 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 3,141 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 3,653 ha Nkwanta South fire, 27 January 2020 5.3% of the municipality · 6,758 ha in total · 14 days
  6. 2,085 ha Krachi East fire, 17 January 2020 3.0% of the municipality · 22,859 ha in total · 43 days
  7. 176 ha Kadjebi fire, February 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,441 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 2,159 ha Biakoye fire, February 2016 3.1% of the municipality · 9,941 ha in total · 14 days
  9. 1,773 ha Nkwanta South fire, 21 January 2016 2.6% of the municipality · 5,758 ha in total · 7 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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