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Wildfires in Sakaraha

Sakaraha, Madagascar, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 70,554 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.2% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 36).

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. Sun 25 High 33° · 14 % · 36 km/h
  2. Mon 26 High 35° · 12 % · 41 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very high 36° · 17 % · 47 km/h
  4. Wed 28 High 32° · 35 % · 49 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 25° · 64 % · 43 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Low 25° · 27 % · 44 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Moderate 26° · 28 % · 38 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Moderate 31° · 23 % · 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

70,554
hectares burned
8.2 %
of its area
12
fires
8,615
km²

How many times has Sakaraha burned?

Sakaraha has burned 12 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Sakaraha fire, October 2026, with 6,470 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 70,554 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 29,993 hectares, 3.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 3× 26
12
fires
9
years with fire
70,554
cumulative ha
29,993
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 Sakaraha

  1. 1,092 ha Toliary-II fire, October 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 6,470 ha Sakaraha fire, October 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 6,872 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 1,664 ha Sakaraha fire, September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,219 ha in total · 19 days
  4. 5,308 ha Sakaraha fire, August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,283 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 2,050 ha Sakaraha fire, August 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,043 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 3,250 ha Sakaraha fire, October 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,235 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 5,272 ha Sakaraha fire, October 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,248 ha in total · 13 days
  8. 2,365 ha Sakaraha fire, November 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,354 ha in total · 16 days
  9. 9,447 ha Sakaraha fire, October 2021 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 9,405 ha in total · 17 days
  10. 8,018 ha Sakaraha fire, September 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 7,982 ha in total · 32 days
  11. 6,080 ha Sakaraha fire, October 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 6,052 ha in total · 17 days
  12. 10,850 ha Sakaraha fire, October 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 11,633 ha in total · 34 days
  13. 9,780 ha Sakaraha fire, October 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 9,734 ha in total · 22 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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