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Wildfires in Garalo

Garalo, Mali, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 14,275 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.4% 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.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 27 Moderate 33° · 38 % · 29 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Moderate 32° · 40 % · 20 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 60 % · 36 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 58 % · 26 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Low 31° · 55 % · 22 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Low 32° · 45 % · 23 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Moderate 33° · 39 % · 24 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Moderate 34° · 38 % · 22 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

14,275
hectares burned
7.4 %
of its area
5
fires
1,920
km²

How many times has Garalo burned?

Garalo has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2017, 2020 and 2026. The most recent: Garalo fire, 21 January 2026, with 353 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 14,275 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 12,388 hectares, 6.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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  11. 2× 26
5
fires
4
years with fire
14,275
cumulative ha
12,388
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 Garalo

  1. 353 ha Garalo fire, 21 January 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,683 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 2,104 ha Garalo fire, 20 January 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,092 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 2,392 ha Garalo fire, February 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,380 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 6,856 ha Garalo fire, January 2017 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 6,848 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 2,570 ha Garalo fire, January 2016 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,643 ha in total · 11 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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