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Wildfires in Koumban

Koumban, Guinea, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 3,658 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.4% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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. Sun 25 Low 33° · 42 % · 23 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Low 32° · 47 % · 26 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Low 30° · 56 % · 28 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Low 31° · 56 % · 26 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 66 % · 30 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 70 % · 27 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 64 % · 35 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 57 % · 22 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

3,658
hectares burned
4.4 %
of its area
4
fires
841
km²

How many times has Koumban burned?

Koumban has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2019, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Banfélé fire, 23 January 2026, with 670 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 3,658 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,520 hectares, 4.2 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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  2. 1× 17
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  4. 1× 19
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  9. 1× 24
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  11. 1× 26
4
fires
4
years with fire
3,658
cumulative ha
3,520
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 Koumban

  1. 670 ha Banfélé fire, 23 January 2026 0.8% of the municipality · 3,180 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 144 ha Banfélé fire, March 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 2,441 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 2,145 ha Koumban fire, December 2019 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 2,131 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 700 ha Banfélé fire, 9 March 2017 0.8% of the municipality · 2,142 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/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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