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Wildfires in Tamale

Tamale, Ghana, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 30,426 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 47% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

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 27 Moderate 35° · 42 % · 22 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Moderate 34° · 51 % · 24 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Moderate 34° · 50 % · 20 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Moderate 34° · 48 % · 26 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Moderate 33° · 49 % · 25 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Moderate 34° · 49 % · 26 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Moderate 35° · 46 % · 25 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Moderate 35° · 49 % · 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

30,426
hectares burned
47 %
of its area
11
fires
651
km²

How many times has Tamale burned?

Tamale has burned 11 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: North East Gonja fire, 1 January 2026, with 12,903 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 30,426 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 18,361 hectares, 28 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
11
fires
8
years with fire
30,426
cumulative ha
18,361
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 Tamale

  1. 12,903 ha North East Gonja fire, 1 January 2026 20% of the municipality · 80,705 ha in total · 47 days
  2. 1,748 ha Tamale fire, January 2025 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 2,290 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 4,222 ha Tamale fire, January 2024 where it started 6.5% of the municipality · 5,234 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 2,304 ha Tamale fire, 11 January 2022 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 2,401 ha in total · 17 days
  5. 2,178 ha Tamale fire, 5 January 2022 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 2,164 ha in total · 16 days
  6. 1,731 ha Nanton fire, December 2021 2.7% of the municipality · 2,443 ha in total · 20 days
  7. 1,976 ha Tamale fire, January 2021 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 2,390 ha in total · 13 days
  8. 169 ha Nanton fire, January 2021 0.3% of the municipality · 2,492 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 1,180 ha North East Gonja fire, February 2020 1.8% of the municipality · 2,360 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 1,959 ha Tamale fire, December 2019 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 2,242 ha in total · 11 days
  11. 55 ha Nanton fire, December 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 4,766 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).

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