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Wildfires in Karaga

Karaga, Ghana, has had 64 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 141,612 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 45% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 19).

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 25 Moderate 36° · 29 % · 22 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Moderate 35° · 38 % · 27 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Moderate 34° · 44 % · 28 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Moderate 33° · 51 % · 22 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Low 35° · 42 % · 21 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Moderate 35° · 37 % · 28 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Moderate 35° · 41 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Moderate 36° · 44 % · 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

141,612
hectares burned
45 %
of its area
64
fires
3,141
km²

How many times has Karaga burned?

Karaga has burned 64 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Karaga fire, 16 January 2026, with 2,679 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 5× 16
  2. 8× 17
  3. 8× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 5× 20
  6. 8× 21
  7. 6× 22
  8. 5× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 8× 25
  11. 7× 26
64
fires
11
years with fire
141,612
cumulative ha
16 Jan 2026
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 Karaga

  1. 2,679 ha Karaga fire, 16 January 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,754 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 674 ha Gushegu fire, 12 January 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 5,581 ha in total · 21 days
  3. 2,516 ha Karaga fire, 10 January 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,498 ha in total · 20 days
  4. 5,714 ha Karaga fire, 9 January 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 5,675 ha in total · 16 days
  5. 3,672 ha Karaga fire, 7 January 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,646 ha in total · 19 days
  6. 3,828 ha Mion fire, 5 January 2026 1.2% of the municipality · 4,420 ha in total · 21 days
  7. 3,045 ha Karaga fire, 4 January 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,027 ha in total · 12 days
  8. 1,462 ha Gushegu fire, December 2025 0.5% of the municipality · 28,439 ha in total · 37 days
  9. 2,197 ha Karaga fire, 31 December 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,184 ha in total · 15 days
  10. 2,138 ha Karaga fire, 29 December 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,126 ha in total · 15 days
  11. 4,867 ha Karaga fire, 27 December 2025 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 4,834 ha in total · 19 days
  12. 1,880 ha Karaga fire, 27 December 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,367 ha in total · 16 days
  13. 2,977 ha Karaga fire, 19 December 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,958 ha in total · 11 days
  14. 10 ha Savelugu fire, 17 December 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 2,917 ha in total · 8 days
  15. 1,764 ha Karaga fire, January 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,073 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 2,157 ha Karaga fire, January 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,141 ha in total · 9 days
  17. 2,255 ha Karaga fire, 28 December 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,240 ha in total · 12 days
  18. 1,384 ha Karaga fire, 27 December 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,079 ha in total · 15 days
  19. 19 ha Karaga fire, 15 December 2023 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 2,891 ha in total · 12 days
  20. 4,340 ha Karaga fire, January 2023 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 4,310 ha in total · 5 days
  21. 9 ha Gushegu fire, 1 January 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 4,611 ha in total · 16 days
  22. 2,129 ha Karaga fire, 29 December 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,114 ha in total · 10 days
  23. 2,400 ha Karaga fire, 8 December 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,384 ha in total · 7 days
  24. 2,879 ha Karaga fire, 7 January 2022 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,862 ha in total · 10 days
  25. 2,023 ha Karaga fire, 7 January 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,009 ha in total · 5 days
  26. 1,543 ha Karaga fire, 7 January 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,711 ha in total · 18 days
  27. 3,514 ha Karaga fire, 5 January 2022 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,490 ha in total · 6 days
  28. 2,077 ha Karaga fire, 31 December 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,064 ha in total · 3 days
  29. 2,229 ha Karaga fire, 29 December 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,527 ha in total · 6 days
  30. 1,933 ha Karaga fire, 18 December 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,206 ha in total · 7 days
  31. 4,970 ha Karaga fire, 9 December 2021 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 4,937 ha in total · 18 days
  32. 323 ha Gushegu fire, January 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 2,358 ha in total · 6 days
  33. 2,918 ha Karaga fire, 9 January 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,898 ha in total · 16 days
  34. 2,304 ha Karaga fire, 9 January 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,288 ha in total · 12 days
  35. 2,909 ha Karaga fire, 6 January 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,053 ha in total · 7 days
  36. 4,447 ha Karaga fire, December 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 4,453 ha in total · 20 days
  37. 2,171 ha Karaga fire, 17 January 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,158 ha in total · 17 days
  38. 1,451 ha Karaga fire, 15 January 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,420 ha in total · 4 days
  39. 2,327 ha Karaga fire, 14 January 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,311 ha in total · 6 days
  40. 1,817 ha Karaga fire, 14 January 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,201 ha in total · 6 days
  41. 256 ha Savelugu fire, December 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 3,604 ha in total · 22 days
  42. 2,388 ha Karaga fire, December 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,371 ha in total · 14 days
  43. 1,051 ha Karaga fire, January 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,020 ha in total · 13 days
  44. 4,493 ha Karaga fire, 31 December 2018 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 4,462 ha in total · 8 days
  45. 87 ha Gushegu fire, 27 December 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 2,214 ha in total · 15 days
  46. 790 ha Savelugu fire, 26 December 2018 0.2% of the municipality · 11,226 ha in total · 29 days
  47. 1,180 ha Karaga fire, 26 December 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,099 ha in total · 11 days
  48. 3,114 ha Karaga fire, 25 December 2018 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,270 ha in total · 10 days
  49. 2,886 ha Karaga fire, 22 December 2018 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,032 ha in total · 14 days
  50. 3,925 ha Karaga fire, 21 December 2018 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,897 ha in total · 16 days
  51. 1,860 ha East Mamprusi fire, December 2018 0.6% of the municipality · 4,936 ha in total · 4 days
  52. 666 ha Karaga fire, 28 December 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,917 ha in total · 14 days
  53. 2,527 ha Karaga fire, 27 December 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,510 ha in total · 6 days
  54. 2,334 ha Karaga fire, 15 December 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,317 ha in total · 15 days
  55. 1,779 ha Karaga fire, 8 December 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,755 ha in total · 4 days
  56. 763 ha West Mamprusi fire, 29 November 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 2,470 ha in total · 5 days
  57. 1,827 ha Karaga fire, November 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,130 ha in total · 5 days
  58. 1,976 ha Karaga fire, 8 January 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,073 ha in total · 5 days
  59. 1,750 ha Karaga fire, 5 January 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,073 ha in total · 6 days
  60. 3,568 ha Karaga fire, 28 December 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,544 ha in total · 12 days
  61. 2,694 ha Karaga fire, 28 December 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,675 ha in total · 10 days
  62. 7 ha Savelugu fire, 24 December 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 4,290 ha in total · 9 days
  63. 1,743 ha West Mamprusi fire, December 2016 0.6% of the municipality · 4,720 ha in total · 19 days
  64. 1,997 ha Karaga fire, January 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,433 ha in total · 10 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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