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Wildfires in Yendi

Yendi, Ghana, has had 31 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 59,322 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 41% 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. Fri 30 Low 34° · 47 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Moderate 35° · 43 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Moderate 35° · 42 % · 25 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Moderate 34° · 48 % · 29 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Moderate 34° · 51 % · 25 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Moderate 35° · 42 % · 24 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Moderate 36° · 38 % · 25 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Moderate 35° · 48 % · 26 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

59,322
hectares burned
41 %
of its area
31
fires
1,456
km²

How many times has Yendi burned?

Yendi has burned 31 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Yendi fire, 24 January 2026, with 2,124 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 59,322 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 34,173 hectares, 23 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3.   18
  4. 7× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 6× 26
31
fires
9
years with fire
59,322
cumulative ha
34,173
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 Yendi

  1. 2,124 ha Yendi fire, 24 January 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,160 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 162 ha Mion fire, 17 January 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 3,314 ha in total · 20 days
  3. 3,559 ha Yendi fire, 17 January 2026 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 3,538 ha in total · 16 days
  4. 1 ha Zabzugu fire, 15 January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,700 ha in total · 17 days
  5. 10,971 ha Yendi fire, 10 January 2026 where it started 7.5% of the municipality · 14,311 ha in total · 29 days
  6. 3,483 ha Yendi fire, 4 January 2026 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 3,474 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 583 ha Yendi fire, January 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,651 ha in total · 12 days
  8. 194 ha Mion fire, 23 January 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 2,788 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 4,605 ha Yendi fire, 14 January 2024 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 4,694 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 2,755 ha Yendi fire, 13 January 2024 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,790 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 154 ha Saboba fire, 29 January 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 2,274 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 484 ha Mion fire, 12 January 2023 0.3% of the municipality · 3,570 ha in total · 9 days
  13. 3,632 ha Yendi fire, December 2022 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 3,606 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 2,598 ha Yendi fire, January 2022 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 6,773 ha in total · 13 days
  15. 2,173 ha Yendi fire, February 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,158 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 3,578 ha Yendi fire, January 2020 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 4,188 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 2 ha Saboba fire, 25 January 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,699 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 8 ha Mion fire, January 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 3,476 ha in total · 14 days
  19. 2,291 ha Yendi fire, December 2019 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,276 ha in total · 15 days
  20. 2,370 ha Yendi fire, 23 January 2019 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,697 ha in total · 9 days
  21. 390 ha Saboba fire, 22 January 2019 0.3% of the municipality · 9,919 ha in total · 11 days
  22. 100 ha Mion fire, 20 January 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 3,101 ha in total · 6 days
  23. 80 ha Mion fire, 17 January 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 3,866 ha in total · 8 days
  24. 2,501 ha Yendi fire, 16 January 2019 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,490 ha in total · 9 days
  25. 1,232 ha Mion fire, 16 January 2019 0.8% of the municipality · 2,753 ha in total · 9 days
  26. 657 ha Yendi fire, 26 January 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,564 ha in total · 11 days
  27. 9 ha Mion fire, January 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 8,269 ha in total · 10 days
  28. 3,583 ha Yendi fire, 13 January 2017 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 3,933 ha in total · 4 days
  29. 3,497 ha Yendi fire, December 2016 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 3,474 ha in total · 5 days
  30. 1,439 ha Yendi fire, February 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,082 ha in total · 9 days
  31. 108 ha Mion fire, January 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 2,396 ha in total · 2 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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