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Wildfires in Sangardo

Sangardo, Guinea: 45 fires since 2016 burned 130,446 hectares inside its boundaries, 1.1 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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° · 60 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 31° · 49 % · 21 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 61 % · 21 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 61 % · 21 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 61 % · 25 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 69 % · 32 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 76 % · 34 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 70 % · 31 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

130,446
hectares burned
1.1×
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
45
fires
1,146
km²

How many times has Sangardo burned?

Sangardo has burned 45 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Yombiro fire, February 2026, with 1,355 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 6× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 5× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7. 5× 22
  8.   23
  9. 4× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 9× 26
45
fires
10
years with fire
130,446
cumulative ha
19 Feb 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 Sangardo

  1. 1,355 ha Yombiro fire, February 2026 1.2% of the municipality · 2,049 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 2,662 ha Sangardo fire, 17 February 2026 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 2,644 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 5,650 ha Sangardo fire, 6 February 2026 where it started 4.9% of the municipality · 11,290 ha in total · 20 days
  4. 4,102 ha Sangardo fire, 6 February 2026 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 6,666 ha in total · 20 days
  5. 1,779 ha Sangardo fire, 6 February 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,033 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 1,765 ha Sangardo fire, 6 February 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 4,298 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 2,821 ha Sangardo fire, January 2026 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 2,804 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 32 ha Douako fire, 24 January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 5,727 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 13,103 ha Albadariah fire, 7 January 2026 11% of the municipality · 72,176 ha in total · 48 days
  10. 1,479 ha Sangardo fire, February 2025 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,064 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 3,165 ha Sangardo fire, January 2025 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 3,144 ha in total · 7 days
  12. 602 ha Banian fire, February 2024 0.5% of the municipality · 2,174 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 2,185 ha Sangardo fire, 24 January 2024 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,175 ha in total · 6 days
  14. 3,126 ha Sangardo fire, 23 January 2024 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 7,312 ha in total · 9 days
  15. 279 ha Douako fire, 22 January 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 4,606 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 2,426 ha Sangardo fire, 6 February 2022 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 2,411 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 1,899 ha Sangardo fire, 3 February 2022 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,788 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 2,280 ha Sangardo fire, 29 January 2022 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,266 ha in total · 6 days
  19. 7,808 ha Sangardo fire, 17 January 2022 where it started 6.8% of the municipality · 7,757 ha in total · 6 days
  20. 2,208 ha Sangardo fire, 17 January 2022 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,845 ha in total · 5 days
  21. 128 ha Albadariah fire, 31 January 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 7,498 ha in total · 13 days
  22. 2,090 ha Sangardo fire, 30 January 2021 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,077 ha in total · 7 days
  23. 447 ha Douako fire, 15 January 2021 0.4% of the municipality · 5,771 ha in total · 14 days
  24. 5,479 ha Sangardo fire, 14 January 2021 where it started 4.8% of the municipality · 5,444 ha in total · 8 days
  25. 569 ha Douako fire, 29 February 2020 0.5% of the municipality · 2,565 ha in total · 4 days
  26. 1,860 ha Sangardo fire, 13 February 2020 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,371 ha in total · 6 days
  27. 1,385 ha Sangardo fire, 12 February 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,024 ha in total · 5 days
  28. 4,392 ha Sangardo fire, 31 January 2020 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 4,886 ha in total · 8 days
  29. 8,255 ha Sangardo fire, 24 January 2020 where it started 7.2% of the municipality · 12,622 ha in total · 25 days
  30. 1,161 ha Sangardo fire, March 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,019 ha in total · 8 days
  31. 4,955 ha Sangardo fire, February 2019 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 4,925 ha in total · 7 days
  32. 2,556 ha Sangardo fire, 26 January 2019 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,541 ha in total · 5 days
  33. 2,337 ha Sangardo fire, 24 January 2019 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,322 ha in total · 7 days
  34. 2,507 ha Sangardo fire, 20 January 2018 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,491 ha in total · 6 days
  35. 2,257 ha Douako fire, 18 January 2018 2.0% of the municipality · 22,404 ha in total · 11 days
  36. 2,496 ha Sangardo fire, 11 January 2018 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,481 ha in total · 8 days
  37. 2,584 ha Sangardo fire, 5 February 2017 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,743 ha in total · 4 days
  38. 954 ha Albadariah fire, February 2017 0.8% of the municipality · 2,084 ha in total · 5 days
  39. 3,161 ha Sangardo fire, 3 February 2017 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 3,141 ha in total · 7 days
  40. 3,285 ha Sangardo fire, 2 February 2017 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 3,265 ha in total · 7 days
  41. 6,994 ha Sangardo fire, January 2017 where it started 6.1% of the municipality · 10,235 ha in total · 8 days
  42. 52 ha Manfran fire, January 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 70,029 ha in total · 16 days
  43. 2,026 ha Sangardo fire, January 2016 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,013 ha in total · 6 days
  44. 5,031 ha Albadariah fire, 25 January 2016 4.4% of the municipality · 14,222 ha in total · 11 days
  45. 2,757 ha Albadariah fire, 24 January 2016 2.4% of the municipality · 15,872 ha in total · 13 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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