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Wildfires in Lambussie-Karni

Lambussie-Karni, Ghana, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 7,465 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.1% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 21).

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. Thu 29 Moderate 35° · 40 % · 23 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Moderate 36° · 31 % · 24 km/h
  3. Sat 31 High 35° · 32 % · 27 km/h
  4. Sun 1 High 37° · 27 % · 31 km/h
  5. Mon 2 High 38° · 25 % · 36 km/h
  6. Tue 3 High 38° · 29 % · 32 km/h
  7. Wed 4 High 38° · 26 % · 37 km/h
  8. Thu 5 High 39° · 23 % · 40 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

7,465
hectares burned
9.1 %
of its area
4
fires
817
km²

How many times has Lambussie-Karni burned?

Lambussie-Karni has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2021, 2023 and 2025. The most recent: Sissala West fire, 27 December 2025, with 805 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 7,465 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 6,398 hectares, 7.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11.   26
4
fires
3
years with fire
7,465
cumulative ha
6,398
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 Lambussie-Karni

  1. 805 ha Sissala West fire, 27 December 2025 1.0% of the municipality · 3,317 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 3,879 ha Sissala West fire, 17 December 2025 4.8% of the municipality · 3,926 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 2,222 ha Lambussie-Karni fire, December 2023 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 3,461 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 560 ha Lambussie-Karni fire, November 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,955 ha in total · 22 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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