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Wildfires in Sambava

Sambava, Madagascar, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 19,412 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.1% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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. Fri 23 Very low 28° · 56 % · 35 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 30° · 51 % · 36 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 29° · 44 % · 47 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 29° · 46 % · 46 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 28° · 54 % · 46 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 29° · 49 % · 39 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 63 % · 34 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 65 % · 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

19,412
hectares burned
4.1 %
of its area
4
fires
4,709
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Sambava

  1. 392 ha Andapa fire, October 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 1,892 ha Sambava fire, December 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,066 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 134 ha Vohemar fire, 18 November 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 2,831 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 13,515 ha Sambava fire, November 2025 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 13,853 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 3,871 ha Sambava fire, November 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,848 ha in total · 5 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).