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Wildfires in Vohibato

Vohibato, Madagascar, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 13,484 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.3% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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. Sat 24 Low 27° · 41 % · 37 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 22° · 57 % · 36 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Low 26° · 42 % · 31 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Moderate 29° · 24 % · 37 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 34 % · 65 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 22° · 62 % · 57 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 22° · 34 % · 53 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 24° · 33 % · 41 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

13,484
hectares burned
7.3 %
of its area
4
fires
1,837
km²

How many times has Vohibato burned?

Vohibato has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2018 and 2022. The most recent: Vohibato fire, October 2022, with 2,096 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 13,484 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 9,566 hectares, 5.2 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
3
years with fire
13,484
cumulative ha
9,566
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 Vohibato

  1. 2,096 ha Vohibato fire, October 2022 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,101 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 4,212 ha Vohibato fire, September 2018 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 4,704 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 3,115 ha Vohibato fire, November 2017 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 3,101 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 4,060 ha Vohibato fire, September 2017 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 4,039 ha in total · 9 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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