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Wildfires in Antsalova

Antsalova, Madagascar, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 29,560 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.3% 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.

These figures leave out one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 86 % · 43 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 39 % · 43 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Low 29° · 34 % · 36 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Moderate 33° · 35 % · 42 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Moderate 34° · 30 % · 42 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Moderate 34° · 35 % · 40 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Moderate 35° · 31 % · 41 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Moderate 36° · 41 % · 39 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

29,560
hectares burned
4.3 %
of its area
8
fires
6,902
km²

How many times has Antsalova burned?

Antsalova has burned 8 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2020, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Belo Sur Tsiribihina fire, 26 August 2026, with 336 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 29,560 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 24,307 hectares, 3.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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8
fires
4
years with fire
29,560
cumulative ha
24,307
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 Madagascar →

Fires that entered Antsalova

  1. 1,652 ha Antsalova fire, October 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 336 ha Belo Sur Tsiribihina fire, 26 August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,173 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 3,981 ha Antsalova fire, August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,957 ha in total · 23 days
  4. 2,065 ha Antsalova fire, 23 November 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,049 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 2,903 ha Antsalova fire, 2 November 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,881 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 10,267 ha Antsalova fire, 20 October 2025 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 14,045 ha in total · 50 days
  7. 5,615 ha Antsalova fire, 12 October 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,586 ha in total · 39 days
  8. 2,252 ha Antsalova fire, August 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,239 ha in total · 17 days
  9. 2,141 ha Antsalova fire, September 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,128 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/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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