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Wildfires in Talensi

Talensi, Ghana, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2025: 1,460 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.7% 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 3 Low 34° · 48 % · 27 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Moderate 35° · 42 % · 19 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Moderate 35° · 36 % · 19 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Moderate 36° · 33 % · 20 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Moderate 35° · 38 % · 19 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Moderate 35° · 38 % · 27 km/h
  7. Mon 9 High 36° · 30 % · 30 km/h
  8. Tue 10 High 36° · 36 % · 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

1,460
hectares burned
1.7 %
of its area
2
fires
844
km²

How many times has Talensi burned?

Talensi has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2025. The most recent: Talensi fire, December 2025, with 1,387 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11.   26
2
fires
1
years with fire
1,460
cumulative ha
5 Dec 2025
most recent

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 Talensi

  1. 1,387 ha Talensi fire, December 2025 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,110 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 73 ha Bolgatanga fire, December 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 3,120 ha in total · 11 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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