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Wildfires in Ambanja

Ambanja, Madagascar, has had 14 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 48,750 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.1% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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 Low 31° · 65 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 29° · 70 % · 31 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 30° · 66 % · 28 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 68 % · 29 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 61 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 59 % · 27 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 67 % · 31 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 69 % · 30 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

48,750
hectares burned
8.1 %
of its area
14
fires
6,038
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Ambanja

  1. 3,497 ha Ambanja fire, September 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,474 ha in total · 19 days
  2. 2,718 ha Ambanja fire, October 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,704 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 4,908 ha Ambanja fire, 15 September 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,876 ha in total · 16 days
  4. 2,935 ha Ambanja fire, 15 September 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,870 ha in total · 16 days
  5. 2,228 ha Ambanja fire, October 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,214 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 6,165 ha Ambanja fire, September 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 7,008 ha in total · 15 days
  7. 470 ha Bealanana fire, October 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 2,374 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 13,642 ha Ambanja fire, 24 September 2022 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 14,609 ha in total · 21 days
  9. 2,051 ha Bealanana fire, September 2022 0.3% of the municipality · 4,289 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 2,224 ha Ambanja fire, 2 September 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,208 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 2,873 ha Ambanja fire, September 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,854 ha in total · 11 days
  12. 3,990 ha Ambanja fire, September 2018 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,964 ha in total · 16 days
  13. 917 ha Ambilobe fire, September 2018 0.2% of the municipality · 2,802 ha in total · 25 days
  14. 133 ha Bealanana fire, September 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 2,736 ha in total · 4 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Madagascar National Disaster Management Office (BNGRC), OCHA ROSA (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).