Skip to content
worldfires
en
GW · Guinea-Bissau · Bafatá

Wildfires in Xitole

Xitole, Guinea-Bissau, has had 14 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 14,753 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 12% 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. Tue 10 Low 34° · 52 % · 19 km/h
  2. Wed 11 Low 33° · 58 % · 18 km/h
  3. Thu 12 Low 34° · 46 % · 13 km/h
  4. Fri 13 Low 33° · 57 % · 21 km/h
  5. Sat 14 Low 32° · 60 % · 21 km/h
  6. Sun 15 Low 34° · 54 % · 17 km/h
  7. Mon 16 Moderate 35° · 45 % · 24 km/h
  8. Tue 17 Low 34° · 49 % · 19 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 Xitole: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

14,753
hectares burned
12 %
of its area
14
fires
1,266
km²

How many times has Xitole burned?

Xitole has burned 14 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Xitole fire, March 2026, with 1,959 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 14,753 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 11,882 hectares, 9.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 4× 26
14
fires
9
years with fire
14,753
cumulative ha
11,882
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 Xitole

  1. 1,959 ha Xitole fire, March 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,946 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 275 ha Galomaro fire, 3 March 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 1,364 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 1,192 ha Xitole fire, 7 February 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,185 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 965 ha Xitole fire, 7 February 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,143 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 741 ha Gabú fire, February 2025 0.6% of the municipality · 1,113 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 1,042 ha Xitole fire, April 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,035 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 1,924 ha Xitole fire, April 2022 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,912 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 1,119 ha Xitole fire, March 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,112 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 301 ha Gabú fire, January 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 1,214 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 207 ha Quebo fire, May 2018 0.2% of the municipality · 1,109 ha in total · 11 days
  11. 797 ha Xitole fire, February 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,011 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 1,609 ha Xitole fire, 5 May 2016 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,600 ha in total · 13 days
  13. 1,474 ha Xitole fire, 5 May 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,465 ha in total · 11 days
  14. 1,149 ha Xitole fire, March 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,141 ha in total · 2 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).

Tell me what burns here

New fires in this area by RSS: paste the link into your reader, no email needed.

Follow by RSS