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Wildfires in Yilo Krobo

Yilo Krobo, Ghana, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 2,414 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.0% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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. Sat 14 Very low 32° · 52 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Low 31° · 63 % · 27 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very low 31° · 59 % · 20 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 31° · 58 % · 22 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Low 32° · 53 % · 20 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Low 33° · 57 % · 20 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 33° · 52 % · 23 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Low 33° · 59 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Yilo Krobo: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

2,414
hectares burned
5.0 %
of its area
2
fires
487
km²

How many times has Yilo Krobo burned?

Yilo Krobo has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2016. The most recent: Okere fire, January 2016, with 1,344 hectares inside the municipality.

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2
fires
1
years with fire
2,414
cumulative ha
6 Jan 2016
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 Yilo Krobo

  1. 1,344 ha Okere fire, January 2016 2.8% of the municipality · 4,450 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,070 ha Upper Manya fire, 3 January 2016 2.2% of the municipality · 2,317 ha in total · 7 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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