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Wildfires in Kouankan

Kouankan, Guinea, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 13,972 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% 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° · 53 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 32° · 43 % · 21 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 56 % · 18 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 59 % · 22 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 66 % · 15 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 69 % · 28 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 63 % · 26 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 68 % · 26 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

13,972
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
10
fires
1,281
km²

How many times has Kouankan burned?

Kouankan has burned 10 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Nionsomoridou fire, 25 January 2026, with 892 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 13,972 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 9,099 hectares, 7.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
10
fires
6
years with fire
13,972
cumulative ha
9,099
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 Kouankan

  1. 892 ha Nionsomoridou fire, 25 January 2026 0.7% of the municipality · 2,052 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 1,101 ha Sengbédou fire, February 2024 0.9% of the municipality · 2,448 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 36 ha Nionsomoridou fire, 18 January 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 2,693 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 1,661 ha Kouankan fire, February 2020 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,107 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 1,550 ha Kouankan fire, January 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,035 ha in total · 18 days
  6. 2,386 ha Kouankan fire, March 2019 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,479 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 1,529 ha Sengbédou fire, 7 February 2019 1.2% of the municipality · 7,621 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 1,049 ha Nzebela fire, February 2016 0.8% of the municipality · 2,120 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 1,686 ha Sengbédou fire, 8 February 2016 1.3% of the municipality · 2,502 ha in total · 11 days
  10. 2,084 ha Sengbédou fire, January 2016 1.6% of the municipality · 6,742 ha in total · 15 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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