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Wildfires in Bafoulabé

Bafoulabé, Mali, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 7,642 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.4% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

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 Moderate 38° · 25 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 36° · 35 % · 17 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 38° · 24 % · 27 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 37° · 20 % · 42 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 36° · 17 % · 35 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 35° · 17 % · 27 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 36° · 22 % · 24 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

7,642
hectares burned
5.4 %
of its area
4
fires
1,414
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Bafoulabé

  1. 98 ha Diamou fire, October 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 2,096 ha Bafoulabé fire, May 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,085 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 479 ha Ségala fire, November 2021 0.3% of the municipality · 2,084 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 2,425 ha Bafoulabé fire, October 2017 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,410 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 2,642 ha Tomora fire, January 2016 1.9% of the municipality · 5,553 ha in total · 6 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/DNCT - Direction Nationale des Colelctivités Territorielles, DNP - Direction Nationale de la Population, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Mali (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).