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Wildfires in Djélébou

Djélébou, Mali, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 8,684 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.7% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 38).

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. Mon 26 Very high 39° · 15 % · 40 km/h
  2. Tue 27 High 36° · 11 % · 34 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very high 36° · 13 % · 34 km/h
  4. Thu 29 High 36° · 16 % · 21 km/h
  5. Fri 30 High 36° · 21 % · 22 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Moderate 33° · 34 % · 41 km/h
  7. Sun 1 High 37° · 20 % · 29 km/h
  8. Mon 2 High 38° · 20 % · 32 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

8,684
hectares burned
9.7 %
of its area
7
fires
895
km²

How many times has Djélébou burned?

Djélébou has burned 7 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2020, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Bangassi fire, 13 October 2026, with 1,664 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 8,684 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 8,308 hectares, 9.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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  5. 1× 20
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  10. 3× 25
  11. 3× 26
7
fires
3
years with fire
8,684
cumulative ha
8,308
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 Djélébou

  1. 1,664 ha Bangassi fire, 13 October 2026 1.9% of the municipality · 3,513 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 2,686 ha Djélébou fire, 25 February 2026 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 2,670 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 2,389 ha Djélébou fire, 25 February 2026 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 2,376 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 186 ha Karakoro fire, November 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 3,486 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 1,210 ha Koussané fire, 2 November 2025 1.4% of the municipality · 2,967 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 66 ha Koussané fire, February 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 2,522 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 482 ha Koussané fire, 24 October 2020 0.5% of the municipality · 3,061 ha in total · 4 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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