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Wildfires in Besalampy

Besalampy, Madagascar, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 19,456 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.6% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 26).

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. Mon 2 High 35° · 26 % · 43 km/h
  2. Tue 3 High 36° · 25 % · 41 km/h
  3. Wed 4 High 36° · 24 % · 37 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Moderate 35° · 37 % · 35 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Moderate 36° · 34 % · 39 km/h
  6. Sat 7 High 36° · 34 % · 46 km/h
  7. Sun 8 High 38° · 30 % · 43 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Low 37° · 47 % · 47 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

19,456
hectares burned
1.6 %
of its area
6
fires
12,021
km²

How many times has Besalampy burned?

Besalampy has burned 6 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2018, 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Besalampy fire, September 2026, with 2,016 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 19,456 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 15,339 hectares, 1.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 3× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
6
fires
4
years with fire
19,456
cumulative ha
15,339
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 Besalampy

  1. 2,758 ha Besalampy fire, October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 2,016 ha Besalampy fire, September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,008 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 3,128 ha Besalampy fire, September 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,110 ha in total · 23 days
  4. 3,556 ha Besalampy fire, 22 October 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,546 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 4,330 ha Besalampy fire, 21 October 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,322 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 3,487 ha Besalampy fire, August 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,527 ha in total · 11 days
  7. 2,940 ha Besalampy fire, August 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,999 ha in total · 14 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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