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Wildfires in Bafatá

Bafatá, Guinea-Bissau, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 249 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.4% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

Only fires of 1,000 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. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 58 % · 21 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 32° · 63 % · 34 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 31° · 66 % · 16 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 61 % · 16 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Very low 33° · 58 % · 16 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very low 33° · 61 % · 15 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Low 33° · 66 % · 16 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 33° · 71 % · 17 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

249
hectares burned
0.4 %
of its area
3
fires
579
km²

How many times has Bafatá burned?

Bafatá has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2020, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Gabú fire, 6 March 2026, with 39 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
3
fires
3
years with fire
249
cumulative ha
6 Mar 2026
most recent

Fires larger than 1,000 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 Guinea-Bissau →

Fires that entered Bafatá

  1. 39 ha Gabú fire, 6 March 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 1,314 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 69 ha Contuboel fire, February 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 4,843 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 140 ha Sonaco fire, March 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 1,661 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/OpenStreetMap, Wambacher (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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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