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Wildfires in Pitche

Pitche, Guinea-Bissau, has had 43 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 49,535 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 25% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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 25 Very low 34° · 58 % · 21 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Low 34° · 51 % · 19 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Low 32° · 62 % · 21 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Low 33° · 49 % · 18 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Low 32° · 51 % · 26 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 62 % · 33 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 63 % · 37 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 55 % · 42 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

49,535
hectares burned
25 %
of its area
43
fires
1,960
km²

How many times has Pitche burned?

Pitche has burned 43 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Madina do Boé fire, 5 April 2026, with 13 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 49,535 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 36,706 hectares, 19 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 6× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 5× 21
  7. 8× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 9× 26
43
fires
11
years with fire
49,535
cumulative ha
36,706
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 Pitche

  1. 13 ha Madina do Boé fire, 5 April 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,296 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,530 ha Pitche fire, 9 March 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,677 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 1,041 ha Pitche fire, 9 March 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,526 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 1,063 ha Pitche fire, 9 March 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,056 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 1,634 ha Pitche fire, 22 February 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,623 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 1,086 ha Pitche fire, 16 February 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,078 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 1,169 ha Pitche fire, 16 February 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,162 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 1,913 ha Pitche fire, 15 February 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,900 ha in total · 12 days
  9. 645 ha Pirada fire, 11 February 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 1,487 ha in total · 12 days
  10. 9 ha Madina do Boé fire, February 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 1,041 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 1,350 ha Pitche fire, February 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,342 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 56 ha Pirada fire, February 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 2,402 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 1,333 ha Pitche fire, 20 April 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,326 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 830 ha Pitche fire, 6 April 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,017 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 854 ha Pitche fire, March 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,018 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 93 ha Gabú fire, 5 March 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,192 ha in total · 7 days
  17. 1,292 ha Pitche fire, March 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,348 ha in total · 2 days
  18. 1,130 ha Pitche fire, 10 February 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,123 ha in total · 4 days
  19. 1,013 ha Pitche fire, 10 February 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,006 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 1,136 ha Pitche fire, 9 February 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,129 ha in total · 8 days
  21. 1,402 ha Pitche fire, 5 February 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,393 ha in total · 8 days
  22. 3,528 ha Pitche fire, 31 January 2022 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,506 ha in total · 14 days
  23. 1,145 ha Pitche fire, January 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,138 ha in total · 5 days
  24. 1,451 ha Pitche fire, March 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,442 ha in total · 4 days
  25. 1,288 ha Gabú fire, 25 February 2021 0.7% of the municipality · 4,437 ha in total · 7 days
  26. 1,168 ha Pitche fire, 24 February 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,161 ha in total · 8 days
  27. 1,293 ha Pitche fire, 22 February 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,285 ha in total · 7 days
  28. 1,909 ha Pitche fire, 22 February 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,327 ha in total · 8 days
  29. 1,380 ha Pitche fire, 13 March 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,372 ha in total · 9 days
  30. 2,042 ha Pitche fire, 11 March 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,974 ha in total · 8 days
  31. 2 ha Madina do Boé fire, 11 March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,563 ha in total · 6 days
  32. 1,204 ha Pitche fire, February 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,197 ha in total · 6 days
  33. 1,183 ha Pitche fire, March 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,176 ha in total · 3 days
  34. 1,033 ha Pitche fire, 26 March 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,027 ha in total · 3 days
  35. 1,019 ha Pitche fire, 21 March 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,013 ha in total · 5 days
  36. 1,553 ha Pitche fire, 23 February 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,557 ha in total · 4 days
  37. 1,013 ha Pitche fire, 1 February 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,007 ha in total · 4 days
  38. 1,371 ha Pitche fire, 31 January 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,362 ha in total · 9 days
  39. 973 ha Pitche fire, January 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,388 ha in total · 2 days
  40. 279 ha Gabú fire, March 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 1,645 ha in total · 8 days
  41. 1,830 ha Pitche fire, 23 March 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,992 ha in total · 4 days
  42. 1,002 ha Pitche fire, 13 March 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,081 ha in total · 7 days
  43. 1,273 ha Pitche fire, February 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,412 ha in total · 5 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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