Wildfires in Upper Manya
Upper Manya, Ghana, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 10,298 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 12% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).
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- Fri 23 Very low 31° · 60 % · 26 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 31° · 65 % · 25 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 30° · 66 % · 21 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 31° · 58 % · 23 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 29° · 72 % · 24 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 29° · 74 % · 26 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 30° · 65 % · 30 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 31° · 62 % · 32 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
- 10,298
- hectares burned
- 12 %
- of its area
- 4
- fires
- 865
- km²
Hectares per year
Fires that entered Upper Manya
- 2,022 ha Upper Manya fire, February 2016 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 2,009 ha in total · 3 days
- 1,262 ha Upper Manya fire, 7 January 2016 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,317 ha in total · 2 days
- 3,056 ha Upper Manya fire, 6 January 2016 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 3,036 ha in total · 4 days
- 3,958 ha Upper Manya fire, 5 January 2016 where it started 4.6% of the municipality · 3,933 ha in total · 6 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).