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Wildfires in Soalala

Soalala, Madagascar, has had 18 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 81,862 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 21).

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. Fri 23 Moderate 36° · 29 % · 37 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 38° · 23 % · 39 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 35° · 36 % · 43 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 36° · 29 % · 36 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 35° · 30 % · 36 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 34° · 31 % · 52 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 33° · 49 % · 54 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 53 % · 46 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

81,862
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
18
fires
7,763
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Soalala

  1. 8,996 ha Soalala fire, 14 October 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 9,027 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 2,270 ha Soalala fire, 8 October 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,262 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 3,066 ha Soalala fire, August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,056 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 1,938 ha Soalala fire, July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,010 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 42 ha Kandreho fire, July 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,184 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 1,313 ha Soalala fire, 25 June 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,147 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 2,233 ha Soalala fire, 13 June 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,217 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 1,248 ha Soalala fire, 9 June 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,306 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 155 ha Kandreho fire, 12 May 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,537 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 2,375 ha Soalala fire, May 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,357 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 19,829 ha Soalala fire, September 2024 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 19,838 ha in total · 23 days
  12. 2,164 ha Soalala fire, July 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,465 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 15,900 ha Soalala fire, September 2022 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 15,864 ha in total · 41 days
  14. 2,303 ha Soalala fire, November 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,297 ha in total · 8 days
  15. 6,351 ha Soalala fire, October 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 6,330 ha in total · 14 days
  16. 4,970 ha Soalala fire, October 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,956 ha in total · 4 days
  17. 3,496 ha Soalala fire, October 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,485 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 3,214 ha Soalala fire, September 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,203 ha in total · 7 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).