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Wildfires in Bolodou

Bolodou, Guinea: 22 fires since 2016 burned 63,747 hectares inside its boundaries, 1.2 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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° · 62 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 31° · 59 % · 16 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 64 % · 21 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 67 % · 20 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 65 % · 25 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 72 % · 28 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 66 % · 29 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 72 % · 33 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

63,747
hectares burned
1.2×
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
22
fires
526
km²

How many times has Bolodou burned?

Bolodou has burned 22 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Bolodou fire, 16 February 2026, with 3,184 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 63,747 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 32,051 hectares, 61 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 4× 26
22
fires
11
years with fire
63,747
cumulative ha
32,051
distinct ha

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 Bolodou

  1. 3,184 ha Bolodou fire, 16 February 2026 where it started 6.0% of the municipality · 4,899 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 518 ha Bolodou fire, 14 February 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,046 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 7,502 ha Bolodou fire, 6 February 2026 where it started 14% of the municipality · 7,992 ha in total · 17 days
  4. 381 ha Koundou fire, January 2026 0.7% of the municipality · 2,509 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 2,279 ha Bolodou fire, January 2025 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 2,264 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 1,658 ha Bolodou fire, February 2024 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 2,003 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 1,259 ha Kassadou fire, January 2023 2.4% of the municipality · 2,650 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 2,620 ha Bolodou fire, 24 January 2022 where it started 5.0% of the municipality · 2,604 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 3,118 ha Bolodou fire, 20 January 2022 where it started 5.9% of the municipality · 3,976 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 14 ha Bolodou fire, 18 January 2022 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 2,015 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 1,979 ha Bolodou fire, January 2021 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 2,370 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 7,975 ha Bolodou fire, January 2020 where it started 15% of the municipality · 9,247 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 305 ha Guendembou fire, March 2019 0.6% of the municipality · 2,351 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 2,574 ha Bolodou fire, January 2019 where it started 4.9% of the municipality · 2,558 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 1,295 ha Bolodou fire, 26 January 2018 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 2,236 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 3,782 ha Bolodou fire, 23 January 2018 where it started 7.2% of the municipality · 4,430 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 2,645 ha Bolodou fire, 19 January 2018 where it started 5.0% of the municipality · 2,628 ha in total · 8 days
  18. 3,234 ha Bolodou fire, 6 February 2017 where it started 6.1% of the municipality · 3,213 ha in total · 4 days
  19. 1,348 ha Bolodou fire, 5 February 2017 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 2,279 ha in total · 5 days
  20. 4,803 ha Bolodou fire, 1 February 2017 where it started 9.1% of the municipality · 4,773 ha in total · 7 days
  21. 7,391 ha Bolodou fire, 29 January 2016 where it started 14% of the municipality · 7,743 ha in total · 7 days
  22. 3,882 ha Bolodou fire, 28 January 2016 where it started 7.4% of the municipality · 4,684 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/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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