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Wildfires in Bambara Maoudé

Bambara Maoudé, Mali, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 28,465 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.0% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 55).

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. Sun 1 Extreme 39° · 10 % · 38 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Extreme 39° · 11 % · 31 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Extreme 41° · 9 % · 29 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very high 40° · 12 % · 23 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Extreme 42° · 8 % · 39 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very extreme 41° · 9 % · 49 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very extreme 36° · 10 % · 49 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Extreme 36° · 11 % · 36 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

28,465
hectares burned
8.0 %
of its area
7
fires
3,564
km²

How many times has Bambara Maoudé burned?

Bambara Maoudé has burned 7 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2020, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Bambara Maoudé fire, October 2025, with 3,274 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 28,465 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 26,323 hectares, 7.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
7
fires
4
years with fire
28,465
cumulative ha
26,323
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 Mali →

Fires that entered Bambara Maoudé

  1. 3,274 ha Bambara Maoudé fire, October 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,254 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 3,253 ha Bambara Maoudé fire, 13 December 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,339 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 3,218 ha Bambara Maoudé fire, 7 December 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,199 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 11,682 ha Bambara Maoudé fire, November 2024 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 18,170 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 2,298 ha Bambara Maoudé fire, October 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,287 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 1,873 ha Bambara Maoudé fire, 31 October 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,914 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 2,867 ha Bambara Maoudé fire, 16 October 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,725 ha in total · 2 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).

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