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Wildfires in Banama

Banama, Guinea, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 2,221 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.4% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

Only fires of 2,000 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 24 Very low 30° · 49 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 31° · 45 % · 25 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 63 % · 23 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 59 % · 21 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 68 % · 23 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 72 % · 29 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 68 % · 27 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

2,221
hectares burned
6.4 %
of its area
3
fires
345
km²

How many times has Banama burned?

Banama has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2019 and 2026. The most recent: Bardou fire, January 2026, with 224 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
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  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
3
fires
3
years with fire
2,221
cumulative ha
26 Jan 2026
most recent

Fires larger than 2,000 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 →

Fires that entered Banama

  1. 224 ha Bardou fire, January 2026 0.6% of the municipality · 3,552 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 1,961 ha Banama fire, February 2019 where it started 5.7% of the municipality · 2,483 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 35 ha Manfran fire, January 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 70,029 ha in total · 16 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/World Food Programme, OCHA ROWCA (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). 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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