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Wildfires in Gabú

Gabú, Guinea-Bissau, has had 57 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 66,522 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 23% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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. Sat 14 Low 33° · 55 % · 19 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Low 34° · 51 % · 14 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Low 34° · 49 % · 16 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Low 32° · 58 % · 21 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Low 32° · 55 % · 16 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Moderate 34° · 34 % · 23 km/h
  7. Fri 20 High 35° · 27 % · 30 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Moderate 34° · 38 % · 22 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 Gabú: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

66,522
hectares burned
23 %
of its area
57
fires
2,843
km²

How many times has Gabú burned?

Gabú has burned 57 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Gabú fire, May 2026, with 1,137 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 7× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 6× 19
  5. 8× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7. 5× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 6× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 16× 26
57
fires
10
years with fire
66,522
cumulative ha
6 May 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 Gabú

  1. 1,137 ha Gabú fire, May 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,131 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 117 ha Galomaro fire, 8 March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,109 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 1,216 ha Gabú fire, 8 March 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,320 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 382 ha Madina do Boé fire, 7 March 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 1,881 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 1,125 ha Gabú fire, 6 March 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,120 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 697 ha Gabú fire, 6 March 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,314 ha in total · 10 days
  7. 1,099 ha Gabú fire, 4 March 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,092 ha in total · 15 days
  8. 2,380 ha Gabú fire, 4 March 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,367 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 998 ha Gabú fire, 4 March 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,061 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 1,219 ha Gabú fire, 3 March 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,212 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 2,454 ha Gabú fire, 3 March 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,437 ha in total · 13 days
  12. 114 ha Galomaro fire, 3 March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,364 ha in total · 9 days
  13. 1,066 ha Gabú fire, 14 February 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,059 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 1,013 ha Gabú fire, 13 February 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,007 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 185 ha Xitole fire, 7 February 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 1,143 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 1,946 ha Gabú fire, 7 February 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,933 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 378 ha Gabú fire, February 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,113 ha in total · 2 days
  18. 708 ha Gabú fire, May 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,176 ha in total · 1 day
  19. 1,186 ha Gabú fire, April 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,179 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 1,046 ha Gabú fire, March 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,039 ha in total · 8 days
  21. 1,740 ha Gabú fire, 24 February 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,729 ha in total · 16 days
  22. 429 ha Galomaro fire, February 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 2,113 ha in total · 9 days
  23. 2,323 ha Gabú fire, 22 February 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,307 ha in total · 6 days
  24. 1,804 ha Gabú fire, 9 April 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,792 ha in total · 5 days
  25. 1,038 ha Gabú fire, 5 April 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,033 ha in total · 8 days
  26. 1,472 ha Gabú fire, April 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,462 ha in total · 6 days
  27. 1,108 ha Gabú fire, 5 March 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,192 ha in total · 7 days
  28. 1,437 ha Gabú fire, 2 March 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,428 ha in total · 8 days
  29. 1,573 ha Gabú fire, 1 March 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,563 ha in total · 9 days
  30. 2,095 ha Gabú fire, February 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,826 ha in total · 15 days
  31. 1,060 ha Gabú fire, March 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,053 ha in total · 4 days
  32. 142 ha Galomaro fire, 25 February 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 1,187 ha in total · 6 days
  33. 3,176 ha Gabú fire, 25 February 2021 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 4,437 ha in total · 7 days
  34. 2,469 ha Gabú fire, 23 February 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,453 ha in total · 8 days
  35. 1,021 ha Gabú fire, 20 March 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,015 ha in total · 4 days
  36. 436 ha Sonaco fire, March 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 1,661 ha in total · 7 days
  37. 1,955 ha Pitche fire, 11 March 2020 0.7% of the municipality · 3,974 ha in total · 8 days
  38. 1,210 ha Gabú fire, 11 March 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,202 ha in total · 5 days
  39. 9 ha Madina do Boé fire, 11 March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,563 ha in total · 6 days
  40. 1,380 ha Gabú fire, 10 March 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,370 ha in total · 6 days
  41. 1,303 ha Gabú fire, 7 March 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,296 ha in total · 11 days
  42. 919 ha Gabú fire, January 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,214 ha in total · 3 days
  43. 1,698 ha Gabú fire, May 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,701 ha in total · 6 days
  44. 1,014 ha Gabú fire, April 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,007 ha in total · 2 days
  45. 1,283 ha Gabú fire, 24 February 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,275 ha in total · 9 days
  46. 1,319 ha Gabú fire, 6 February 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,311 ha in total · 9 days
  47. 1,094 ha Gabú fire, 27 January 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,087 ha in total · 3 days
  48. 1,044 ha Gabú fire, 23 January 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,038 ha in total · 7 days
  49. 220 ha Xitole fire, February 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 1,011 ha in total · 3 days
  50. 1,237 ha Gabú fire, February 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,229 ha in total · 2 days
  51. 1,182 ha Gabú fire, 10 May 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,176 ha in total · 3 days
  52. 1,191 ha Gabú fire, 5 May 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,185 ha in total · 7 days
  53. 1,376 ha Gabú fire, March 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,645 ha in total · 8 days
  54. 174 ha Pitche fire, 23 March 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 1,992 ha in total · 4 days
  55. 1,023 ha Gabú fire, 13 February 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,018 ha in total · 7 days
  56. 1,087 ha Gabú fire, 13 February 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,081 ha in total · 3 days
  57. 1,012 ha Gabú fire, January 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,006 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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