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Wildfires in Tolon

Tolon, Ghana, has had 22 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 47,602 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 35% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 18).

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 Moderate 37° · 33 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 37° · 31 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 37° · 29 % · 24 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 37° · 28 % · 26 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 36° · 34 % · 25 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 36° · 35 % · 26 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 37° · 36 % · 33 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 37° · 38 % · 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

47,602
hectares burned
35 %
of its area
22
fires
1,363
km²

How many times has Tolon burned?

Tolon has burned 22 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Tolon fire, 20 January 2026, with 3,914 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 47,602 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 33,188 hectares, 24 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 5× 25
  11. 4× 26
22
fires
9
years with fire
47,602
cumulative ha
33,188
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 Tolon

  1. 3,914 ha Tolon fire, 20 January 2026 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 4,059 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 2,018 ha Tolon fire, 16 January 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,136 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 1,029 ha North Gonja fire, 16 January 2026 0.8% of the municipality · 2,241 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 2,891 ha Tolon fire, 5 January 2026 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 2,873 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 3,464 ha Tolon fire, 25 December 2025 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 7,391 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 2,119 ha North Gonja fire, 20 December 2025 1.6% of the municipality · 2,456 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 2,708 ha Tolon fire, 20 December 2025 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,689 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 2,014 ha Tolon fire, 20 December 2025 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,025 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 2,844 ha Kumbungu fire, 18 December 2025 2.1% of the municipality · 3,503 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 2,197 ha Tolon fire, December 2024 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,212 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 3,312 ha Tolon fire, December 2022 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 3,369 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 2,100 ha Tolon fire, 30 December 2021 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,241 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 1,829 ha Tolon fire, 19 December 2021 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,038 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 2,324 ha Tolon fire, November 2021 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,308 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 80 ha Tolon fire, 14 January 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,688 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 2,430 ha Tolon fire, 14 January 2020 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,416 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 1,224 ha Tolon fire, December 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,068 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 473 ha Kumbungu fire, 12 December 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 2,816 ha in total · 12 days
  19. 1,799 ha Tolon fire, January 2019 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,150 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 2,938 ha Tolon fire, December 2018 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,921 ha in total · 10 days
  21. 1,607 ha Kumbungu fire, November 2017 1.2% of the municipality · 2,073 ha in total · 3 days
  22. 2,287 ha Tolon fire, November 2017 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,271 ha in total · 4 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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