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Wildfires in Offinso North

Offinso North, Ghana, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 38,249 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 40% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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 31° · 57 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 31° · 56 % · 23 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 68 % · 24 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 74 % · 25 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 73 % · 23 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 66 % · 36 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 64 % · 37 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 31° · 67 % · 20 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

38,249
hectares burned
40 %
of its area
11
fires
952
km²

How many times has Offinso North burned?

Offinso North has burned 11 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Offinso North fire, January 2026, with 3,777 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 38,249 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 19,456 hectares, 20 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
11
fires
6
years with fire
38,249
cumulative ha
19,456
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 Offinso North

  1. 3,777 ha Offinso North fire, January 2026 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 3,824 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 1,949 ha Offinso North fire, February 2022 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,162 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 3,931 ha Offinso North fire, January 2022 where it started 4.1% of the municipality · 3,985 ha in total · 14 days
  4. 1,116 ha Offinso fire, February 2020 1.2% of the municipality · 10,205 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 3,815 ha Offinso North fire, February 2020 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 4,119 ha in total · 16 days
  6. 2,010 ha Offinso North fire, March 2019 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 2,138 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 2,623 ha Offinso North fire, February 2019 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 2,636 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 2,192 ha Offinso North fire, January 2018 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 2,287 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 5,304 ha Offinso North fire, February 2016 where it started 5.6% of the municipality · 5,860 ha in total · 12 days
  10. 3,042 ha Offinso North fire, 26 January 2016 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 3,453 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 8,491 ha Offinso North fire, 23 January 2016 where it started 8.9% 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).

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