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Wildfires in Buba

Buba, Guinea-Bissau, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 8,550 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 63 % · 32 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 75 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 72 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 31° · 67 % · 21 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 31° · 66 % · 22 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 61 % · 26 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 34° · 56 % · 19 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 34° · 67 % · 20 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

8,550
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
8
fires
787
km²

How many times has Buba burned?

Buba has burned 8 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Buba fire, March 2026, with 1,036 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 8,550 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 7,554 hectares, 9.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
8
fires
5
years with fire
8,550
cumulative ha
7,554
distinct ha

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 Buba

  1. 1,036 ha Buba fire, March 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,030 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 403 ha Fulacunda fire, March 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 1,088 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 596 ha Buba fire, March 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,006 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 465 ha Quebo fire, May 2019 0.6% of the municipality · 1,168 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 1,279 ha Buba fire, May 2019 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,272 ha in total · 18 days
  6. 1,086 ha Buba fire, 10 May 2018 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,079 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 2,019 ha Buba fire, 4 May 2018 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 2,007 ha in total · 14 days
  8. 1,665 ha Quebo fire, April 2016 2.1% of the municipality · 5,676 ha in total · 23 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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