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Wildfires in Tain

Tain, Ghana, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 7,239 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.9% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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° · 66 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 31° · 66 % · 24 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 32° · 57 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 31° · 61 % · 26 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 61 % · 37 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 59 % · 40 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 68 % · 41 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 68 % · 50 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

7,239
hectares burned
3.9 %
of its area
7
fires
1,841
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Tain

  1. 0 ha Wenchi fire, December 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,004 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 7 ha Sunyani West fire, 3 February 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 8,046 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 153 ha Berekum East fire, February 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 4,053 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 81 ha Sunyani West fire, 7 February 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 10,820 ha in total · 16 days
  5. 2,733 ha Tain fire, 10 February 2016 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,717 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 3,860 ha Tain fire, 6 February 2016 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 3,836 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 404 ha Sunyani West fire, 22 January 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 26,650 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).