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Wildfires in Offinso

Offinso, Ghana, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 14,732 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 25% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Fri 23 Very low 31° · 71 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 31° · 66 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 31° · 60 % · 19 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 64 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 71 % · 23 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 69 % · 28 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 68 % · 28 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 72 % · 29 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

14,732
hectares burned
25 %
of its area
6
fires
590
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Offinso

  1. 227 ha Offinso North fire, February 2022 0.4% of the municipality · 2,162 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 80 ha Offinso North fire, January 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 3,985 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 5,611 ha Offinso fire, February 2020 where it started 9.5% of the municipality · 10,205 ha in total · 14 days
  4. 330 ha Offinso North fire, February 2020 0.6% of the municipality · 4,119 ha in total · 16 days
  5. 30 ha Offinso North fire, February 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 2,636 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 8,454 ha Offinso North fire, 23 January 2016 14% of the municipality · 20,797 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).