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Wildfires in Nanton

Nanton, Ghana, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 10,329 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 22% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 27).

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 14 Moderate 35° · 43 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sun 15 High 34° · 40 % · 23 km/h
  3. Mon 16 High 36° · 31 % · 23 km/h
  4. Tue 17 High 34° · 34 % · 16 km/h
  5. Wed 18 High 34° · 28 % · 20 km/h
  6. Thu 19 High 36° · 17 % · 23 km/h
  7. Fri 20 High 36° · 17 % · 26 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very high 36° · 25 % · 23 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 Nanton: hourly forecast Today, 14 µg/m³ of PM2.5 (×0.9 the WHO guideline)

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

10,329
hectares burned
22 %
of its area
8
fires
480
km²

How many times has Nanton burned?

Nanton has burned 8 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Mion fire, 6 January 2026, with 1,153 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 10,329 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 7,374 hectares, 15 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
8
fires
5
years with fire
10,329
cumulative ha
7,374
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 Nanton

  1. 1,153 ha Mion fire, 6 January 2026 2.4% of the municipality · 2,947 ha in total · 19 days
  2. 426 ha Mion fire, 5 January 2026 0.9% of the municipality · 4,420 ha in total · 21 days
  3. 728 ha Nanton fire, December 2021 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,443 ha in total · 20 days
  4. 148 ha Karaga fire, 6 January 2021 0.3% of the municipality · 3,053 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 2,339 ha Nanton fire, January 2021 where it started 4.9% of the municipality · 2,492 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 592 ha Karaga fire, 15 January 2020 1.2% of the municipality · 2,420 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 298 ha Tamale fire, December 2019 0.6% of the municipality · 2,242 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 4,646 ha Nanton fire, December 2017 where it started 9.7% of the municipality · 4,544 ha in total · 20 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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