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Wildfires in Watanka

Watanka, Guinea, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 6,060 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 18% of its area. 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. Fri 23 Very low 29° · 69 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 30° · 56 % · 20 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 30° · 61 % · 16 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 62 % · 18 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 67 % · 15 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 69 % · 17 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 76 % · 29 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 72 % · 25 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

6,060
hectares burned
18 %
of its area
5
fires
336
km²

How many times has Watanka burned?

Watanka has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2022. The most recent: Panziazou fire, March 2022, with 1,610 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 6,060 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,304 hectares, 16 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
5
fires
4
years with fire
6,060
cumulative ha
5,304
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 Watanka

  1. 1,610 ha Panziazou fire, March 2022 4.8% of the municipality · 6,985 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 4 ha Kondiadou fire, March 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 2,221 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 2,022 ha Watanka fire, March 2020 where it started 6.0% of the municipality · 2,141 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 2,099 ha Watanka fire, March 2019 where it started 6.2% of the municipality · 2,085 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 324 ha Panziazou fire, March 2017 1.0% of the municipality · 2,335 ha in total · 8 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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