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Wildfires in Ambohimahasoa

Ambohimahasoa, Madagascar, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 3,374 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.7% of its area. 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. Sun 1 Very low 26° · 37 % · 33 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 28° · 35 % · 32 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 26° · 54 % · 36 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 25° · 59 % · 36 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Very low 24° · 51 % · 41 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Low 26° · 36 % · 44 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Low 27° · 33 % · 42 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 27° · 53 % · 40 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

3,374
hectares burned
1.7 %
of its area
5
fires
1,939
km²

How many times has Ambohimahasoa burned?

Ambohimahasoa has burned 5 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2023. The most recent: Ifanadiana fire, October 2023, with 450 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
5
fires
5
years with fire
3,374
cumulative ha
5 Oct 2023
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 Madagascar →

Fires that entered Ambohimahasoa

  1. 450 ha Ifanadiana fire, October 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 3,416 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 562 ha Ambositra fire, 1 October 2022 0.3% of the municipality · 2,138 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 1,785 ha Ifanadiana fire, October 2019 0.9% of the municipality · 2,169 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 173 ha Lalangina fire, October 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 2,238 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 405 ha Ifanadiana fire, October 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 2,102 ha in total · 20 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).

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