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Wildfires in Cacheu

Cacheu, Guinea-Bissau, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 3,858 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.7% 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 23 Very low 36° · 53 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 32° · 68 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 33° · 64 % · 24 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 34° · 57 % · 28 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 34° · 53 % · 20 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 65 % · 26 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 64 % · 27 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 64 % · 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

3,858
hectares burned
3.7 %
of its area
3
fires
1,042
km²

How many times has Cacheu burned?

Cacheu has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2018. The most recent: Cacheu fire, 27 May 2018, with 1,585 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 3,858 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,400 hectares, 3.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
3,858
cumulative ha
3,400
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 Cacheu

  1. 1,585 ha Cacheu fire, 27 May 2018 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,904 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 1,174 ha Cacheu fire, 26 May 2018 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,168 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 1,098 ha Cacheu fire, May 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,092 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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