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Wildfires in Saboba

Saboba, Ghana, has had 38 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 87,383 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 50% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 15).

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. Tue 10 Moderate 36° · 39 % · 34 km/h
  2. Wed 11 Moderate 30° · 66 % · 27 km/h
  3. Thu 12 Moderate 35° · 36 % · 24 km/h
  4. Fri 13 Moderate 34° · 39 % · 26 km/h
  5. Sat 14 High 35° · 32 % · 20 km/h
  6. Sun 15 High 35° · 25 % · 27 km/h
  7. Mon 16 High 35° · 26 % · 21 km/h
  8. Tue 17 High 36° · 33 % · 22 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 Saboba: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

87,383
hectares burned
50 %
of its area
38
fires
1,763
km²

How many times has Saboba burned?

Saboba has burned 38 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Saboba fire, February 2026, with 2,564 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 87,383 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 48,912 hectares, 28 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3.   18
  4. 7× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 8× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 6× 26
38
fires
10
years with fire
87,383
cumulative ha
48,912
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 Saboba

  1. 2,564 ha Saboba fire, February 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,547 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 4,270 ha Mion fire, 16 January 2026 2.4% of the municipality · 5,784 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 3,882 ha Saboba fire, 16 January 2026 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 3,857 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 4,008 ha Saboba fire, 11 January 2026 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 3,980 ha in total · 15 days
  5. 3,438 ha Yendi fire, 10 January 2026 2.0% of the municipality · 14,097 ha in total · 29 days
  6. 15 ha Yendi fire, 4 January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,474 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 4,156 ha Saboba fire, 4 February 2025 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 4,129 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 3,247 ha Saboba fire, 3 February 2025 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,225 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 2,084 ha Yendi fire, January 2025 1.2% of the municipality · 2,651 ha in total · 12 days
  10. 2,636 ha Saboba fire, February 2024 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,618 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 2,391 ha Saboba fire, 21 January 2024 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,375 ha in total · 10 days
  12. 108 ha Gushegu fire, 18 January 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 9,413 ha in total · 16 days
  13. 5 ha Mion fire, 15 January 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 2,940 ha in total · 10 days
  14. 120 ha Yendi fire, 14 January 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 4,694 ha in total · 8 days
  15. 54 ha Yendi fire, 13 January 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 2,790 ha in total · 10 days
  16. 2,247 ha Saboba fire, 11 January 2024 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,232 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 3,541 ha Chereponi fire, January 2024 2.0% of the municipality · 4,637 ha in total · 8 days
  18. 2,134 ha Saboba fire, 29 January 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,274 ha in total · 2 days
  19. 4,162 ha Saboba fire, 28 January 2023 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 4,133 ha in total · 6 days
  20. 2,747 ha Saboba fire, 29 January 2022 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,493 ha in total · 13 days
  21. 4,218 ha Yendi fire, January 2022 2.4% of the municipality · 6,766 ha in total · 13 days
  22. 2,186 ha Saboba fire, 7 January 2022 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,172 ha in total · 4 days
  23. 2,480 ha Saboba fire, January 2021 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,464 ha in total · 2 days
  24. 903 ha Saboba fire, 27 January 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,024 ha in total · 7 days
  25. 2,714 ha Saboba fire, 25 January 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,699 ha in total · 4 days
  26. 2,744 ha Saboba fire, 23 January 2020 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,725 ha in total · 10 days
  27. 3,904 ha Saboba fire, February 2019 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 3,879 ha in total · 10 days
  28. 2,159 ha Saboba fire, 28 January 2019 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,144 ha in total · 3 days
  29. 345 ha Yendi fire, 23 January 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 2,697 ha in total · 9 days
  30. 7,414 ha Saboba fire, 22 January 2019 where it started 4.2% of the municipality · 9,919 ha in total · 11 days
  31. 2,034 ha Saboba fire, 20 January 2019 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,022 ha in total · 3 days
  32. 235 ha Gushegu fire, 10 January 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 2,660 ha in total · 6 days
  33. 1,503 ha Chereponi fire, 1 January 2019 0.8% of the municipality · 2,598 ha in total · 4 days
  34. 3,384 ha Saboba fire, December 2017 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 3,362 ha in total · 9 days
  35. 49 ha Mion fire, January 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 8,269 ha in total · 10 days
  36. 2,270 ha Saboba fire, January 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,255 ha in total · 5 days
  37. 377 ha Yendi fire, 13 January 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 3,933 ha in total · 4 days
  38. 654 ha Yendi fire, February 2016 0.4% of the municipality · 2,082 ha in total · 9 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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